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The analysis stops right when things start to become interesting. I was hoping there'd be a decompiled code snippet to see what the app in question is actually doing with the image, since it's not displaying it.
Looks like a case that the developers carelessly copied and pasted some "sample code" into the app...
> [...] it seems that there is no good way to get in touch with them through email (I sent an email to all publicly available channels, only to get back an autoresponder that assumes I'm an user of the app and asking for my phone number). I eventually resorted to DM their CEO on twitter.
Resorting to Twitter for support is increasingly common. The importance of having an "abuse@" email (and possibly some social media bots to DM all sysops when a mail arrives)...
If I were to guess, they use the picture as a connectivity/speed test. They probably figured Wikipedia has unlimited free bandwidth, so they didn't care.
> it is a popular chat/social media mobile app used in India Indians of Hacker News, what are the likely candidates?
There are a lot of apps that have launched in India around that time frame with huge numbers of users thanks to nationalistic rhetoric. They are terrible apps, but they are made in India terrible apps, and that apparently is enough to get a large following in India of late.
TL;DR The thread doesn't name the specific app, but it's Indian, likely a social Android app, probably Say Namaste or Mutton TV. The right app was found by installing apps and checking the connection logs.
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Wikimedia is simply trying to be polite and not to publicly shame the company.
It could provoke an angry mob, which doesn't help anybody.
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Any idea why they don't name the app?
Wikimedia is simply trying to be polite and not to publicly shame the company.