There have been multiple accounts created with the sole purpose of posting advertisement posts or replies containing unsolicited advertising.

Accounts which solely post advertisements, or persistently post them may be terminated.

Appoxo ,
@Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Like a worse AliExpress

devilish666 ,

Same like wish

Sam_Bass ,

The only thing annoying to me about temu is the cheesy popups for “free” gifts and percent-off wheel spinners.

Blackmist ,

And the product thumbnails that all look like sex toys.

xad , (edited )

I hate Temu, but this (apparently contracted?) Grizzly Reports report isn’t really all that trust inspiring, tbh.

Our experts identified a stack of software functions that are completely inappropriate to and dangerous

The stack difference to the Amazon app they list:

  • Package compile
  • Requesting system logs
  • Some code obfuscation
  • Mac address collection
  • Install permission
  • Wake lock

Meh. That’s just a sliver worse than your regular, off the shelves proprietary corporate app. I don’t see how they can pull off the promise of being a truly dynamic Android app from that report.

I do believe they hover up data, but they aren’t otherworldly super hackers. They will probably just ask for the data and the users will hand it over in a second. For most people, it really is that simple.

cybermass ,

I am not even remotely surprised.

Every day I hear a story about Chinese software being spyware.

gearheart ,

deleted_by_author

    •
    BarbecueCowboy ,

    The ‘But, everyone is a bit evil’ argument is such bullshit, the concern here is obviously the extent of the surveillance, but no one can say you’re entirely wrong because the definition of that is so broad.

    It’s kind of technical, but there are comparisons on the report itself, even a fancy table, to other popular shopping apps and there are some legitimately troubling items. For anyone else, I’d recommend skipping direct to the source:

    grizzlyreports.com/we-believe-pdd-is-a-dying-frau…

    pop ,

    There wouldn’t be so much anti-china propaganda, if the popular companies didn’t do so much shit behind people’s back to drown out the good things coming out of China.

    I mean China is becoming a economic powerhouse, just make your companies not be backdoors until your influence and trust increase without competition. But nooooo, they have to do every worse thing other big tech companies do, but at a script-kiddie level.

    paraphrand ,

    Shop like a billionaire targeted by state sponsored hackers.

    Churbleyimyam ,

    Not enough just to get someone else to take your cheap plastic shit to landfill after it’s cluttered their space then I guess.

    Timecircleline ,

    But if you install the app you get a free Bluetooth speaker!!

    /Joking. Am I the only one who gets that ad constantly whenever I’m using a device that isn’t running ad blocks?

    sunzu ,

    Have they ever heard of faceberg or sundar the creep?

    PanArab ,

    At what point does this all just become sinophobia?

    PythagreousTitties ,

    Probably when the software isn’t malware.
    But in this case it is.

    KillingTimeItself ,

    since people are yelling about it.

    It’s probably not blatantly bypassing security and privacy features, what it is PROBABLY doing is using the user to bypass them by simply manipulating them to do it.

    Social engineering is way easier than whatever bullshit you would need to do to bypass sandboxing and dynamically recompile, or whatever people are claiming, and my guess would be that this is what they’re doing.

    If the suit is claiming they are doing what i said, that’s probably legal, and not going anywhere, unless tiktok ban bill 2.0. If the suit is claiming what others are claiming, it’s still probably wrong and probably going to be tiktok ban bill 2.0.

    Unfortunately these things aren’t all that exciting at the end of the day.

    cheese_greater ,

    Friendly reminder to ,check out Friendly Social Browser to get all these apps in a better experience and secure/private context

    JCreazy , (edited )

    What is being done with the information?

    ripcord ,
    @ripcord@lemmy.world avatar

    At least svix.

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • [email protected]
  • random
  • lifeLocal
  • goranko
  • All magazines
    •