In 2018, potentially harmful app (PHAs) install rates from Google play increased to 0.04 percent, up from 0.02 in 2017. According to the source, this is largely due to the inclusion of click fraud as a PHA category. In total, 0.92 percent of app installs outside of Google Play were PHAs, down from 3.32 percent in 2016.
Percentage of potentially harmful app (PHA) installs on Android devices from 2016 to 2018, by market segment
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