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yeah, the most shady part of this is that SimpleApps' code was available in Github. They could have just used that and upload it to the Play Store.
why did they buy it from the developer instead? because thousands of people already had these installed, so when buying it from the developer they get to push their new, ad infested versions to the unwary users had the apps installed.
This is a very dark pattern IMO.