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

submitted 4 months ago by neme@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 32 points 4 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] pantyhosewimp@lemmynsfw.com 7 points 4 months ago

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.

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

"So yeah temu has become a trash site. "

[–] dan@upvote.au 6 points 4 months ago

That CAPTCHA isn't specific to Temu.

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

one of the best decisions you'll ever make, next to dns level blocking it on your network.