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One of Most Popular Mac Apps Acts Like Spyware (Link Only)
Wired
| September 7, 2018
| Lily Hay Newman
Posted on 09/07/2018 10:22:12 AM PDT by Swordmaker
Adware Doctor, the fourth top listed anti-adware app on the Mac App Store apparently collects user browsing history and then sends it to a server in China. Due to copyright limitations I am providing a link only to the Wired story:
One of Most Popular Mac Apps Acts Like Spyware (Link Only).
Please, read the article for complete information at the link.
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: adwaredoctor; antiadware; appleapp; applepinglist; applespyware; spyware
To: ~Kim4VRWC's~; 1234; 5thGenTexan; AbolishCSEU; Abundy; Action-America; acoulterfan; AFreeBird; ...
Mac TROJAN APP "Adware Doctor", which is not a very good Adware preventer, is also SPYWARE sending user's browsing history to a server in China. If you use it STOP! Remove it from your browsers. —PING!
Apple SPYWARE TROJAN WARNING!
Adware Doctor is SPYWARE!Ping!
If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.
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posted on
09/07/2018 10:26:28 AM PDT
by
Swordmaker
(My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplaphobe bigot!)
To: Swordmaker
I’m convinced that iTunes is spyware. Apple updates it so damn much...
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posted on
09/07/2018 10:43:27 AM PDT
by
BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: Swordmaker
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posted on
09/07/2018 11:04:57 AM PDT
by
Squantos
(Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
To: Squantos
Yes, ghostery is good. Also the Brave browser.
However, who knows for sure what the code is doing without personally reading it?
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posted on
09/07/2018 11:42:12 AM PDT
by
The Westerner
(Protect the most vulnerable: get the government out of medicine, education and forests!)
To: The Westerner
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posted on
09/07/2018 1:06:36 PM PDT
by
Squantos
(Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
To: Swordmaker
Many apps are spyware. I just learned this week that those handy fitness trackers ALL download every bit of your personal data to their servers. And don't forget that one of the big ones, Xiao, is owned by the Chinese government.
If we don't stop the spying, in a few more years, they will have totalitarian control because of the ability to reveal anything we might find sensitive, or cause people to single you out for personal attacks (IRS, for example), shut you down (Google, Twitter) and more.
To: Swordmaker
I use AdBlock, is that considered safe?
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posted on
09/07/2018 2:35:31 PM PDT
by
Not gonna take it anymore
(Now that Trump has won, I don't have to post about halfwit anymore)
To: Not gonna take it anymore
I use AdBlock, is that considered safe? Currently, yes. But who knows what someone will find next week.
This Adware Doctor was most likely perfectly clean when it cleared Apple's stringent curation to get in the Mac App Store, but they probably altered it after it was allowed in. That will get the publisher a lifetime ban for ever getting any other app sold through Apple's stores. That kind of bad behavior has consequences.
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posted on
09/07/2018 3:47:41 PM PDT
by
Swordmaker
(My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplaphobe bigot!)
To: Swordmaker
Interesting - as I not only have never heard of this specific app, but haven’t even noticed it in the app store...
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posted on
09/10/2018 11:08:01 AM PDT
by
TheBattman
(Democrats-Progressives-Marxists-Socialists - redundant labels.)
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