WateryRaccoon

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by WateryRaccoon 6y ago
Thank you for this insight. Because it's being installed on the order of 100,000's of people, and it all started on October 30th, I believe there is some specific event that set this off rather than a bunch of accidental or misled
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by WateryRaccoon 6y ago
Interesting.. I don't think this would explain the users who claim the app keeps coming back after they've removed it? Is installing Android from another user's image a popular thing?
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by WateryRaccoon 6y ago
We're prepared to do this if necessary, but most of these users aren't actually using the app. So the only apparent damage is them getting upset that the app keeps reappearing on their phone.
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by WateryRaccoon 6y ago
The app has been unlisted from the problematic countries. The installs are not coming from the Play Store but rather somehow the APK is being installed directly to the phones. I don't know of a way to block this from occurring.
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by WateryRaccoon 6y ago
One theory we came up with is that our competition could be trying to get our app marked as spam or malware, and thus booted from the Play Store. If they have some sort of exploit that allows them to install arbitrary .apks on hundreds of t
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by WateryRaccoon 6y ago
We do have ads for our unregistered and free users. Our ad campaigns are all handled in-house.
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by WateryRaccoon 6y ago
No. The app can be used without signing up at all. After you sign up, you are required to verify your email address (via email, not SMS) to receive a free trial which we offer.
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Ask HN: Why are we receiving thousands of fake users?
32 points by WateryRaccoon 6y ago|18 comments