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Re:Apple's best product is now privacy by krn on Friday September 14, 2018 @03:04PM (#17989931)
> Heard some Chinese companies sell phones with ad injections in default apps.

Cubot is a good example[1]:

"However, it was discovered that Cubot had removed the malware from the System UI package and hidden it under a new package, com.android.telephone, disguised as the phone dialer. On further digging, it was discovered that the new package does not have any real function and it manages to evade any detection by antivirus apps such as NetGuard, that would detect the malware under System UI previously."

[1] https://techweez.com/2017/09/19/cubot-malware/

Re:Apple's best product is now privacy by baki on Friday September 14, 2018 @10:19PM (#17992607)
Or Dogee T5. It wakes you up at night with the noisy ads. terrible. It would be a quite good phone, but not. useless. One of the adwares is in the wireless update system app, others I don't remember already where are they exactly, but in system apps.
Re:Apple's best product is now privacy by JVIDEL on Saturday September 15, 2018 @07:57AM (#17993940)
Those are bottom of the barrel brands and the specs are pretty bad.

The only thing they have is low prices.

Re:Apple's best product is now privacy by krn on Saturday September 15, 2018 @02:18PM (#17995398)
Umidigi[1] could also be added to the list, even though the phones are quite impressive on paper.

[1] http://www.umidigi.com/