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Novel technique allows malicious apps to escape iOS and Android guardrails (arstechnica.com)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Pretty sure that was widely available two years ago. I used that to install a free VPN while in China.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah, I forget what version of Android it went out in. I only really started paying attention when, at work, we realized that a lot of our unreproducible bugs were from PWA users claiming they had installed the native app.

And those mismatched PWA / native bugs were overwhelmingly from Android users on newer versions of Android. They thought the new PWA install user experience was for a native Play Store app.

The bugs were driving us crazy and then someone in UX caught the behavior on a user test.