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UC Browser, a popular web browser developed by Alibaba subsidiary UCWeb, was found to be tracking user habits on both iOS and Android, and sending the data back to company servers. ....
The UC browser made by Chinese tech giant Alibaba sends tons of private user information to Chinese servers even when it s in incognito mode, researchers found. ....
Report claims UC Browser for Android and iOS tracks user activity Shane McGlaun - Jun 2, 2021, 6:27am CDT One of the biggest online companies in the world is the Chinese firm Alibaba. It has a browser application called UC Browser available on the Android Play Store or the Apple App Store. When UC Browser was first revealed, it was promised that the browser would offer an incognito mode that didn’t record web browsing or search history. The browser also promised fast downloads, and its feature set made it very popular worldwide, racking up 500 million downloads on the Android platform alone. ....
minute read Share this article: The tech giant removes 164 more offending Android apps after banning software showing this type of behavior from the store last year. Google has removed 164 apps, downloaded a total of 10 million times, from its Google Play marketplace because they were delivering “disruptive” ads, considered malicious. Last year, the tech giant banned apps that delivered this type of advertising, called out-of-context ads. But the problem continues to plague Google despite numerous efforts by the company to prevent “malicious developers” from submitting their apps to its Google Play marketplace. Researchers discovered the offending apps mimicking legitimate apps to garner downloads, “only to then trick the user into seeing a whole bunch of unexpected ads,” researchers Gabi Cirlig, Michael Gethers, Lisa Gansky and Adam Sell wrote in a report published by WhiteOps Satori Threat Intelligence Team. ....