What does happen for me is I often fat-finger, to hit one icon and get the neighboring one. But I have never seen anything remotely similar to that. At all. I wonder if it’s asking you to install the app?
Ah, yeah DDG uses the google browser engines. That could easily explain the different behavior.
It appears to be trying to force the download of the tiktok .apk directly - I haven’t compared the hashes but at least that’s what the names indicate. But the download, and the inserting random strings into my clipboard, happens without interaction a few seconds after the page loads. It’s very odd behavior to see from a legit site.
Ah, yeah DDG uses the google Being browser engines.
From your screenshot, you had the choice to reject. I don’t know what Chinese law is about stuff like that, so I’m not going to speak on it, other than to say that firstly, I imagine it’s the Chinese version of tiktok, and secondly, almost every popular social US social media, not to mention website do it, including banking sites. I don’t like it, and I’m not saying it’s a legitimate way of doing business, but it’s certainly not any different than US websites.
Um… this isn’t misinformation. Heres one of the .apks it tries to download, the others are apparently all variations on that name - if this is just tiktok, then it’s still a pretty huge problem that it’s attempting to force-download itself onto my phone and is copying random stuff (the string “677e2163cbeed74442e2247e575770983c98bc9a30c649a397010bd06f476ef8” from that screenshot, there’s others I’ll spare you) onto my clipboard.
Really? I haven’t had that problem. What APKs?
[long string of random characters].apk
FWIW, I see the same.
Cool? I guess my browser blocked it.
No idea what the difference is, I’m using firefox mobile with all the usual extensions fwiw.
I haven’t used FF in several years.
That might explain the difference, what browser are you using?
DDG, strict permissions management.
What does happen for me is I often fat-finger, to hit one icon and get the neighboring one. But I have never seen anything remotely similar to that. At all. I wonder if it’s asking you to install the app?
Ah, yeah DDG uses the google browser engines. That could easily explain the different behavior.
It appears to be trying to force the download of the tiktok .apk directly - I haven’t compared the hashes but at least that’s what the names indicate. But the download, and the inserting random strings into my clipboard, happens without interaction a few seconds after the page loads. It’s very odd behavior to see from a legit site.
From your screenshot, you had the choice to reject. I don’t know what Chinese law is about stuff like that, so I’m not going to speak on it, other than to say that firstly, I imagine it’s the Chinese version of tiktok, and secondly, almost every popular social US social media, not to mention website do it, including banking sites. I don’t like it, and I’m not saying it’s a legitimate way of doing business, but it’s certainly not any different than US websites.
RedNote is stable and can be used by iOS and Android.
Um… this isn’t misinformation. Heres one of the .apks it tries to download, the others are apparently all variations on that name - if this is just tiktok, then it’s still a pretty huge problem that it’s attempting to force-download itself onto my phone and is copying random stuff (the string “677e2163cbeed74442e2247e575770983c98bc9a30c649a397010bd06f476ef8” from that screenshot, there’s others I’ll spare you) onto my clipboard.