Um… this isn’t misinformation. Heres one of the .apks it tries to download, the others are apparently all variations on that name - if this is just tiktok, then it’s still a pretty huge problem that it’s attempting to force-download itself onto my phone and is copying random stuff (the string “677e2163cbeed74442e2247e575770983c98bc9a30c649a397010bd06f476ef8” from that screenshot, there’s others I’ll spare you) onto my clipboard.
What does happen for me is I often fat-finger, to hit one icon and get the neighboring one. But I have never seen anything remotely similar to that. At all. I wonder if it’s asking you to install the app?
Ah, yeah DDG uses the google browser engines. That could easily explain the different behavior.
It appears to be trying to force the download of the tiktok .apk directly - I haven’t compared the hashes but at least that’s what the names indicate. But the download, and the inserting random strings into my clipboard, happens without interaction a few seconds after the page loads. It’s very odd behavior to see from a legit site.
Really? I haven’t had that problem. What APKs?
RedNote is stable and can be used by iOS and Android.
Um… this isn’t misinformation. Heres one of the .apks it tries to download, the others are apparently all variations on that name - if this is just tiktok, then it’s still a pretty huge problem that it’s attempting to force-download itself onto my phone and is copying random stuff (the string “677e2163cbeed74442e2247e575770983c98bc9a30c649a397010bd06f476ef8” from that screenshot, there’s others I’ll spare you) onto my clipboard.
[long string of random characters].apk
FWIW, I see the same.
Cool? I guess my browser blocked it.
No idea what the difference is, I’m using firefox mobile with all the usual extensions fwiw.
I haven’t used FF in several years.
That might explain the difference, what browser are you using?
DDG, strict permissions management.
What does happen for me is I often fat-finger, to hit one icon and get the neighboring one. But I have never seen anything remotely similar to that. At all. I wonder if it’s asking you to install the app?
Ah, yeah DDG uses the google browser engines. That could easily explain the different behavior.
It appears to be trying to force the download of the tiktok .apk directly - I haven’t compared the hashes but at least that’s what the names indicate. But the download, and the inserting random strings into my clipboard, happens without interaction a few seconds after the page loads. It’s very odd behavior to see from a legit site.