Keyboard app with 100M installs with full phone access and tracking codes
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Re: Keyboard app with 100M installs with full phone access and tracking codes
#2How do they get 100 million people to install that kind of crap anyway? Is it perhaps preinstalled or is there another scam going on with fake installs?
Re: Keyboard app with 100M installs with full phone access and tracking codes
#3How do they get 100 million people to install that kind of crap anyway? Is it perhaps preinstalled or is there another scam going on with fake installs?
Most likely fake installs. It would be better if Google showed active users in last week or something similar.
Re: Keyboard app with 100M installs with full phone access and tracking codes
#4How do they get 100 million people to install that kind of crap anyway? Is it perhaps preinstalled or is there another scam going on with fake installs?
GO apps were really popular, I remember installing some during the Cheetah Mobile Clean Master days. Not sure if still that's the case but it's popular enough to show on top on Play Store searches and it has attractive screenshots.
Re: Keyboard app with 100M installs with full phone access and tracking codes
#5How apps like this pass moderation in Google Play? Wondering if App Store moderation is any better.
Re: Keyboard app with 100M installs with full phone access and tracking codes
#6How do they get 100 million people to install that kind of crap anyway? Is it perhaps preinstalled or is there another scam going on with fake installs?
That was a good keyboard before Gboard got better with swipe.
Re: Keyboard app with 100M installs with full phone access and tracking codes
#7Would that site's analysis be able to detect if they did something beyond just metadata type stuff?
Like, does it just profile and track you, or could they actually steal passwords and trade secrets and the like?
Re: Keyboard app with 100M installs with full phone access and tracking codes
#8How apps like this pass moderation in Google Play? Wondering if App Store moderation is any better.
No.