Scammers placing keywords related to a different app, hoping users get confused

Moonrise2473@lemmy.ml to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world – 240 points –

I'm pissed that I bought simple gallery pro because it respected my privacy, then because the dev sold his soul for a ton of money, it now rapes my privacy

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Simple Mobile Tools got sold and probably will go the web extension way of scammers loading it up with malware to extract private info and sell it. Delete it now.

Seriously? I have so many of their apps. I had no idea.

That's so annoying - I have a ton of their apps too!

Looks like I'll be staying on these ancient F-Droid versions for a while until a replacement shows up... but ugh I am so annoyed. Files, Draw, and the gallery in particular that allowed you to resize (strips EXIF data), crop and do all sorts was so handy

Fossify Gallery and Files are already up on F-Droid!

Might you be able to post a Link to the F-droid version? I can't seem to find it there by simple search...

It was bought by zipoapps or so and they might release ad infested versions. Fossify is the fork of all simple mobile tools

Oh thank you! Looks like they're easy to find on F-Droid, so this should be a fairly painless transition

It was bought out by ZippoApps, which is notorious for buying popular apps, loading them with adware/spyware, then abandoning them once all the users eventually flee.

Go look at the added permissions that the new versions require. You’re basically handing them an image of your entire phone.

Quick question, I've been using F-droid for like Spottube, I assume I should seek out Spottube for any future updates now correct?