On a throwaway Samsung Galaxy with American ROM, I installed some Chinese apps. When I uninstall them, the browser opens with a specific “uninstall survey”. How that is possible? Are they exploiting some os weakness or it’s permitted by the apk uninstall API?

The bad actors are:

  • sogou keyboard
  • Tencent video
  • weibo
  • Illecors@lemmy.cafe
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    1 year ago

    Warning - precision guesswork ahead.

    In computer programming there’s a concept of a hook - do something before or after an event. It very well might be that “uninstall” event has hooks and one of them is “open this website after it’s done”.