Peace app creator pulls top ad blocker because its success 'doesn't feel good'
Peace takes advantage of iOS 9, Apple's newly updated mobile software, to filter out mobile ads and tracking on other apps and websites. Mobile advertising is the fastest growing sector of the ad business and seen by most publishers as vital to their …
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50 apps to improve your smartphone
App developers also have a growing awareness of issues around privacy, from messaging apps such as Telegram that make encryption one of their key features, to controversies like recent criticism of an update to Spotify's privacy policy, which was …
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Fake porn apps holding Android phones for ransom
Adult Player and Porn Droid claim to be apps that allow you to view pornography, but when you install them, after clicking through a few seemingly harmless permissions that give admin access to the phone, they restrict access it and demand money to …
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