In a single update, a popular barcode scanner app that had been on Google Play for years turned into malware.

I was a victim lol

  • AgreeableLandscape
    8·
    4 years ago

    This is why I use an open source barcode scanner. Not saying it’s impossible for them to be privacy abusing, but there’s a huge disincentive for that in open source, and people will just fork it if it does.

    • seahorseOP
      3·
      4 years ago

      Yeah, this got carried over from my last phone. I had installed it way before I got into open source stuff.

  • 51524262fTw
    3·
    4 years ago

    But why the user doesn’t do the right thing and pay for the app? Barcode Scanner Premium Edition completes me.

    • onek
      1·
      4 years ago

      i can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic