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Xiaomi replaced my app from F-Droid with their own version (self.android)

submitted 8 months ago by tomjuggler to c/android

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So this just happened - those of you who have a Xiaomi phone know when you install apps it has it's own "Virus Checker" screen which comes up before the app is approved for install. This is provided by Avast I just found out..

Anyway while installing an app from F-droid today I got an error message on this screen - which said "app from unknown source" and two buttons below - "Ignore" and "Install". So I clicked on "Install" since I wanted to install the app and then noticed that the install process seemed a bit different (I can't remember what happened exactly) but I checked the app on F-Droid and the version history wasn't available - which a notice says means the app was installed from Play Store or somewhere else. But I just installed it from F-Droid!

So I tried another few apps and it happened again for one of them. I clicked around and there it was, some sort of Xiaomi app store installing versions of the app instead of the one I told my phone to install.

I guess there is an innocent explanation for this - stopping people from installing malware and giving them a "correct" version of the app they wanted - but I have disabled it on my phone, I know what I am doing and if I want the cracked version it's because that's the version I meant to install ;)

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[–] Paragone 45 points 8 months ago (4 children)

XOR...

Xaiomi is installing versions with Microsoft-style spyware/malware in 'em..

Same as ISP's altering the web-pages that people view, for their own commercial-reasons...

Molesting-the-user seems to be THE SurveillanceCapitalism paradigm, in the Enshittocene..

I'm not competent to do the decompilation/analysis required to discover if your new "helpful" versions are spyware/malware, but I'd bet they are not as clean as the original versions are.

Avast has been caught being treason-against-privacy, recently, too, with their "privacy" app that was actually a trojan to enable Avast to sell privacy-information for profit..

( last few weeks in the Tech news, here on Lemmy.world, iirc )

You might want to ask the MalwareBytes people to look into it?

[–] tomjuggler 3 points 8 months ago

I heard about the avast thing, but how are isp's modifying web pages, that shouldn't be possible with with https, right?

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