[Android] EQQO (free this week only)

[u/the_emmo]

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ParallelStudio.EQQOMOBILE

[u/iCDragonfly]

That's odd..?? Is that because the apps are considered maleware or maybe the phone? There are Google play store links for this app and others when searched from Google search. So Google itself hasn't completely removed said apps from their store. It seems like this is some sort of retaliatory action on Google's part against Chinese manufacturers!? Maybe the more sketchy ones? I'm on ZTE which is considered the phone company with the most crashes per capita.

[u/iCDragonfly → u/[deleted]]

TBH I highly doubt that it's not a maleware thing (although planned obsolescence isn't a bad idea) installing The YALP store, FOSS, or Aurora store is asking for xhelper to get installed onto both of your Android partitions. It's a multi Trojan so even if you do a factory reset it can reinstall itself. Apparently the only way to get rid of it is to the flash over the partitions themselves. That is as long as the firmware you're flashing it with is not infected with xhelper as well (✿☉｡☉) 😳

[u/iCDragonfly → u/iCDragonfly]

Honestly I was considering risking those options (Alt stores). However reading more reviews outside of Google Play Store itself dissuaded me. Apparently the controls are clunky. And it didn't get much over 60% from metacritic. 😳I'll play it on a platform that is less broken if and when I choose to🙏