This is unfortunately common with Chinese software. Remember back in the early 2000s when a lot of freeware and shareware shoveled adware onto your PC without t

This is unfortunately common with Chinese software. Remember back in the early 2000s when a lot of freeware and shareware shoveled adware onto your PC without telling you? Remember when tools like ad-aware were popular? Nowadays that's the exception, or done by those shady download portals which wrap the installers of everything. And often times there's at least a checkbox in the installer. It seems China is currently where we were back then. User awareness is low, as long as things work nobody cares. Sure, there's tons of malware on the play store etc., but it's always from some weird vendor nobody has ever heard of. Coincidentally, a couple days ago I noticed a friend's phone running really hot. It was freshly charged, taken off the charger about half an hour ago, but freaking hot. I checked the battery stats and "sougou", a popular Chinese keyboard (if not the most popular one) clocked in with 24 minutes of CPU time. I told my friend and we uninstalled immediately. Two days later he was super happy and told me his phone's battery life increased greatly and he can now even make it through a full day (...). Now I'm still hesitant to claim this was definitely some mining software embedded in the keyboard, it might as well have been a messed up config making some thread spin in an infinite loop, but the suspicion stays...