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Google Play Games client on PC is a shameful Bluestacks rip-off.

#bluestacks #android #google #googleplay #gaming

CVE Alert: CVE-2019-25293 - bluestacks - Blue Stacks App Player - https://www.redpacketsecurity.com/cve-alert-cve-2019-25293-bluestacks-blue-stacks-app-player/

#OSINT #ThreatIntel #CyberSecurity #cve-2019-25293 #bluestacks #blue-stacks-app-player

New tumblr post- and the last one for Dragon Quest VI! I finished the game yesterday. While I do love these DS remakes and the added content for mobile, playing it on emulated Android was a drag... but I should be on other consoles for the rest of the series!

https://slimereader.tumblr.com/post/784912494868201472/

#tumblr #dragonquest #bluestacks #android

If you like #Android and have an #ARM Mac I suppose you’ll be hyped to hear about the new #Apple Silicon compatible versions of #BlueStacks. So now you can play all those games being advertised on TV by movie and TV stars. whee. #videogames #emulation #macOS https://9to5mac.com/2025/05/03/bluestacks-air-smoothly-brings-hundreds-of-popular-mobile-games-to-your-mac-sponsored/

Wie kann ich in #Bluestacks verhindern, dass das virtuelle Keyboard eingeblendet wird, sobald ich ein Eingabefeld anklicke? Die Tastatur versperrt mir den halben Bildschirm, obwohl ich sie gar nicht brauche..

#fedihelp_de #fedihelp #emulator

MAGIS TV PRO: cómo descargar BlueStacks 5 para poder instalarlo en mi PC https://blog.elhacker.net/2025/01/magis-tv-pro-como-descargar-bluestacks.html #bluestacks #android #magis #apk #pro #tv

MAGIS TV PRO: cómo descargar BlueStacks 5 para poder instalarlo en mi PC https://blog.elhacker.net/2025/01/magis-tv-pro-como-descargar-bluestacks.html #bluestacks #android #magis #apk #pro #tv

MAGIS TV PRO: cómo descargar BlueStacks 5 para poder instalarlo en mi PC https://blog.elhacker.net/2025/01/magis-tv-pro-como-descargar-bluestacks.html #bluestacks #android #magis #apk #pro #tv

📱 Scopri BlueStacks Air: emula Android su Apple Silicon senza sforzo! 🚀 #BlueStacks #TechNews

🔗 https://www.tomshw.it/hardware/bluestacks-air-lemulatore-android-per-apple-silicon-2024-12-16

Last night I played Dragon Quest VI for two hours straight without saving. https://slimereader.tumblr.com/post/765231179820630016

#dragonquest #dqvi #android #bluestacks

Seemingly, they've added a crap AI assistant to BlueStacks 5 since I last updated it. Ugh. I asked her, "How do I disable Ana AI?" to which she replied that I should go to Settings. I'd already looked. I asked for more specifics and she told me how to open settings, insisting there was an option. There isn't. So I'll just download an older version!

#bluestacks #emulation

I just want to quit #bluestacks...

Fuckity fuck, it looks like the #Youku app no longer works on android emulators like #BlueStacks or #MEmu.

Why you gotta be a little bitch, Youku? What do you get out of forcing people to watch your shows on the mobile app and not easily be able to cast them to other screens?

@djh Time to run the Android app on a PC emulator. Then no power-saving shenanigans. Either #BlueStacks or Win11.

Doesn't get you away from multiple OS shenanigans, nor the ridiculousness of running critical logic on Android, but better than relying on a phone device whose entire purpose is to shut itself off.

How to Install #Bluestacks ( #Android Emulator ) on #Ubuntu 🐧 :ubuntu: :android:

https://www.ubuntumint.com/install-bluestacks-on-ubuntu/

😩 I just want to read IDWPublishing comics on my Windows laptop but neither the Windows app nor BlueStacks nor NoxPlayer work.
Why do things need to be so effing complicated? Why is there no webreader? Why am I not able to get this to work? I don't want to read a comic, or anything really, on my tiny phone screen.

😭😭😭

I am super new to digital comics and I'm ready to give up already.

#comics #IDWPublishing #BlueStacks #NoxPlayer #Windows

Meanwhile the likes of #Google and #TPLink are doing the same thing. PLEASE bring back web based router administration. You are killing the ability of #MSPs to remotely assist clients with setup. It is ridiculous to have to install #Bluestacks to run #GoogleHome or #MySpectrum or whatever TP-Link apps there are. Mobile apps are great for self setup, just stop getting rid of the web interface.
#InfoTech #SysAdmin #ISP #WiFi

BlueStacks may have set a new record for fastest descent from "useful software" to "borderline-malware", the likes of which I haven't seen outside of certain anti-malware applications, and one particular multi-service chat app I used back in the day.

For those who don't know, BlueStacks is an Android device emulator for PCs, and a pretty decent one at that; I started using it a few years ago, to run a couple apps that I only needed sparingly and that I couldn't prevent from scanning my contacts and such. It's geared toward gaming, which I didn't even realize was enough of a niche to get an emulator of this caliber, but for my purposes, it worked pretty well. And while it had some ad-adjacent promotional game launchers at the bottom of the home screen wallpaper that I couldn't get rid of, plus like one app that came pre-installed, and a default-off/opt-in option to allow it to show ads during games, it generally didn't feel intrusively overmonetized, so I was able to write all that stuff off as a necessary acceptable compromise of capitalism.

Recently, one of the apps I was using it for started giving warnings about the Android version being out of date, so I looked into update the OS. The general answer was "you can't", but the first thread I looked at included an official response saying that updating BlueStacks would include a newer version of Android for new VMs. Cool, makes sense, I didn't look deeper into it, and I just did it.

I should've looked deeper into it.

The new version of BlueStacks added a big "Play & Win" app icon to the home screen, which I couldn't remove, but I could at least drag it into a folder. Along with two new bright orange icons at the top of the already-cluttered title bar, "Play & Win" and "Reward Center"; these are positioned right in the middle of one of only two clickable gaps in the title bar. So now, if you want to move the window, the only place you can click and drag to do that is the title text. And there's no way to turn off those title bar icons, they're just stuck there forever, brightly sticking out like headlights in the night. Oh, and the app launchers in the footer became a lot more prominent.

Looking for a way to turn this off sent me into the settings, where I discovered that the "Allow BlueStacks to show ads during gameplay" option that was off by default had magically turned itself on without telling me. Cool. Very legitimate software behavior. Also, it now has an option to connect with Discord, which I would have no interest in doing even if I used this constantly, but after silently opting me in to show ads, I definitely don't trust this thing to even exist outside of a sandboxed VM, let alone connect to any of my real accounts in any way.

Another new addition to the home screen is a search bar that can't be removed, and it's not even a normal Google search bar. It's labeled "search for games & apps", with the Google Play Store icon on the left. Which is odd, because I didn't know the Play store had a homescreen widget, so I took a closer look. And despite having the Google Play icon, it does not search the Play store. Instead, it opens something called "App Center" (another new icon on the home screen), with an icon that's nearly identical to the Google Play icon, but it is entirely a third-party app store with no connection to the official Google app installer. I'm not entirely clear whether this "App Center" is unique to BlueStacks, or some other third-party app they partnered with, but given that it has no branding of its own other than trying to look as close to official as possible, and has no settings page of any kind, it feels like a homebrew sideloader of some kind. It's also unclear to me where these apps are coming from - ie, is this "App Center" just a front-end over the Google Play store, or pulling from a completely independent app store/repository? - but it definitely does not show a full list of all available Android apps. When searching for common apps that I know should exist, the only available results in this "App Center" are the shadiest-looking no-name pay-to-win/slot machine games imaginable, followed by a "Search in Google Play" button at the bottom of the list.

All of this would be bad enough, and it was all more than enough to put "downgrade BlueStacks and look for an alternative" on my to-do list, but this one software update had even more tricks up its sleeve. One of which was to install a new application called "BlueStacks X" that I've never heard of, but its icon is identical to "BlueStacks 5" (the one I usually use to launch my main Android VM). I left it alone, but today, I discovered that it also installed a system tray icon without telling me. "Minimize to tray" as a substitute for "exit" is a scourge that plagues a lot of applications nowadays, so I assumed that was what this was, but it didn't have a "BlueStacks 5" option (the option that immediately opens an Android VM), or even an "Instance Manager" option (the tool that creates new VMs and manages which one is considered the "default"). It only had "BlueStacks X" and some other option related to "Play & Win" (I forget exactly). So I opened "BlueStacks X" out of curiosity.

The whole point of BlueStacks is that it's an Android VM platform. Like, that's its entire reason for being, and that's what I expect it to do and use it for. But "BlueStacks X" does not open an Android VM. Instead, it opens the homepage of a custom app store that, as far as I can tell, acts like a gaming marketplace for PC, similar to Steam, but ostensibly with games that are primarily written for Android. But it uses "cloud gaming" to either directly install these on PC (breaking WAY out of the VM box, though probably in UX only, I'm sure it's still using its VM system for these apps behind the scenes), or "Instant Play" without installation (my camera creates image files that are bigger than many Android apps, so I struggle to envision a scenario where installation times are a problem in dire need of solving for Android apps on a full PC). And all of them are pay-to-win garbage - in fact, as I look at it while writing this, one of them is literally a slot machine. Oh, and there's a homescreen section for "Web3 Games", because of COURSE this suddenly-shady software fell head over ass into crypto.

I checked the BlueStacks X settings for a way to turn off the tray icon, and there wasn't one - in fact, there are barely any settings at all, just a language selector and an extremely vague "Player Preference" option that I guess has something to do with the "instant play" thing? At that point, I no longer cared enough to spend more time with it, and I had a meeting to go to, so I just exited BlueStacks X, right-clicked the system tray icon and picked Exit, and moved on. But it wasn't done surprising me, because at some point during my meeting, *the system tray icon came back*. After explicitly exiting the program from the system tray, it came back on its own. Which gave me sudden flashbacks to Windows XP spyware as I started checking the usual culprits for more modern zombie executables - persistent background tasks, and system services. Neither of which had anything that seemed relevant, so I started looking further afield, and found it in the Task Scheduler, the favorite hiding place of every background process that doesn't want to be found unless you know how to jump through all the hoops Microsoft hid it behind in Windows 10. But just to be safe, I also checked the startup list - I haven't rebooted since updating BlueStacks, and this zombie tray icon was clearly coming back without a restart, but at this point, all bets are off - and sure enough, in addition to hiding in the Task Scheduler, it was also hiding in the startup tasks.

I'm sure there's a lot more to dig into here, but this is already turning into an essay-length post - I'll try to investigate further and turn this into an actual article if there's interest. Suffice to say, I am beyond done with #BlueStacks, and I can honestly say that I've never seen a single update to software I use semi-regularly tank my trust in that application and its dev team this severely or this quickly. Usually, when an app turns out to be this shady and intrusive, it was either always like that, or it's such a gradual shift that there's no one specific breaking point. And this isn't just a symptom of skipping updates and suddenly catching up on the gradual decline - as far as I can tell, all of the changes I observed can be traced to one specific release in January. But to suddenly shift from "good software that lightly reminds you they'd like money but is no worse about it than anything else in the Android ecosystem" to "literally using malware tactics and blatant trademark infringement to push literal gambling games" pretty much overnight is...a bold strategy. I don't think it's going to pay off for them.

@JoergA Ja ansonsten müsstest du vielleicht #BlueStacks probieren

Does anyone know a way I can run #NomadScult, an #Android only app, on a #Windows #Surface and retain #multitouch and #pen control?

#Bluestacks runs the app just fine, but it doesn't have multitouch so it's a pain.

OR, is there something for #3Dsculpting on Windows that allows pen mode and doesn't require a #keyboard?

Yesterday when I opened #Bluestacks I saw 👇👇 message (screenshot)

I was surprised to see Bluestacks upgrading the OS to #Android 10 but it gave an error few minutes later as I was using mobile data. There was no news about this on Google either.

In Bluestacks there is no "system update" option in settings, so I couldn't check for updates manually like we usually do in Android phones/tablets.

If anyone is using Bluestacks & has a normal broadband internet, kindly check if you are getting 👇👇