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Re:Ask HN: Why are we receiving thousands of fake users? by marko0172 on Friday November 13, 2020 @07:37PM (#25089220)
Probably someone with your app installed copied their android image across a bunch of cheap phones at once.
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Re:Ask HN: Why are we receiving thousands of fake users? by WateryRaccoon on Friday November 13, 2020 @07:58PM (#25089330)
Interesting.. I don't think this would explain the users who claim the app keeps coming back after they've removed it? Is installing Android from another user's image a popular thing?
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Re:Ask HN: Why are we receiving thousands of fake users? by mcslick12 on Saturday November 14, 2020 @07:19PM (#25096912)
It's possible, if that image has a startup script to fetch the .apk from a third party source & install it. I've put custom/specialty ROMs on old Android devices in the past and they often come with random apps I don't need and uninstall on first boot.
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