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Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, lawsuit claims(arstechnica.com)

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Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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Yesterday, I saw a Temu ad for something and I just wanted to open it to read the info and there were so many popups and “spin the wheel for a prize” and “enter your email here” and so on that I gave up and just looked for the info elsewhere. Never clicking on a Temu link again.

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pantyhosewimp@lemmynsfw.com
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Same, but a year ago.

Also, Temu has tried to take all the shopping search results from Bing/DDG. So those results are trash now.

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MehBlah@lemmy.world
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I get their CAPTCHA where I have to slide the puzzle piece over to look at one of their ads. More than half the time I will do this and it will fail saying I didn’t do it right. So yeah temu has become a trash site.

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Raiderkev@lemmy.world
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"So yeah temu has become a trash site. "

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dan@upvote.au
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That CAPTCHA isn’t specific to Temu.

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thermal_shock@lemmy.world
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one of the best decisions you’ll ever make, next to dns level blocking it on your network.

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