#candycrush — Public Fediverse posts

@christopherkunz Well… Nope, unlikely. One is about Chrome extensions, the other about Android apps. Very different ecosystems.

I don’t have data on when the removals occurred exactly. Judging by chrome-stats data (not sure how reliable it is), most extensions seem to have been removed in the past few days.

#Alt4You: Screenshot of two posts. The top post is by WPalant: “There seems to be some major cleansing going on in Chrome Web Store. At least 7,500 extensions got removed over the course of the past month.” The bottom post is by PrivacyDigest: “#CandyCrush , #Tinder, #MyFitnessPal : See the Thousands of Apps #Hijacked to Spy on Your Location.” The second post links to a Wired story on the topic.

#CandyCrush , #Tinder, #MyFitnessPal : See the Thousands of Apps #Hijacked to Spy on Your Location

A hack of location data company #GravyAnalytics has revealed which apps are—knowingly or not—being used to collect your information behind the scenes.
#privacy #geolocation #tracking #surveillance

https://www.wired.com/story/gravy-location-data-app-leak-rtb/

#CandyCrush , #Tinder , #MyFitnessPal : See Thousands of Apps #Hijacked to #Spy on Your Location

Some of the world’s most pop apps R likely being co-opted by rogue members of the #advertising industry to harvest sensitive loc data on massive scale, with data ending up with a loc data company whose subsidiary has previously sold global location data to US law enforcement
#privacy

https://www.404media.co/candy-crush-tinder-myfitnesspal-see-the-thousands-of-apps-hijacked-to-spy-on-your-location/