Imagebam Android problem

[phoneman]

I had problems with IE 8

[TheWolfe]

These days I do all of my online L&C stuff on my phone. I wound up reporting them to Google for violation of Google Play TOS by using an aggressive browser hijacker to artificially inflate hits, making the game they're selling appear more popular than it actually is. I was pleasantly surprised a couple of days later when the hijacking stopped! Maybe it was just a coincidence. Now Imagebam is just slow and I get a lot of failed downloads on pics I try to save.

Imagebox has a different quirk. When I click to view a pic, it's on my screen for maybe two or three seconds before another pic in the set starts loading as if I'm watching a slide show. This will continue if I let it until it runs out of photos. At least it's easy enough to click the back button and save the pics, which never fail to save.

All of these problems are relatively recent developments that indicate to me that those sites are adding more scripts to their pages to harvest more information from our browsers. Selling that info covers their expenses while we use their sites for free.

[dendrin]

Originally Posted by TheWolfe

These days I do all of my online L&C stuff on my phone. I wound up reporting them to Google for violation of Google Play TOS by using an aggressive browser hijacker to artificially inflate hits, making the game they're selling appear more popular than it actually is. I was pleasantly surprised a couple of days later when the hijacking stopped! Maybe it was just a coincidence. Now Imagebam is just slow and I get a lot of failed downloads on pics I try to save.

Imagebox has a different quirk. When I click to view a pic, it's on my screen for maybe two or three seconds before another pic in the set starts loading as if I'm watching a slide show. This will continue if I let it until it runs out of photos. At least it's easy enough to click the back button and save the pics, which never fail to save.

All of these problems are relatively recent developments that indicate to me that those sites are adding more scripts to their pages to harvest more information from our browsers. Selling that info covers their expenses while we use their sites for free.

That and more shady developers are making malware for phone operating systems nowadays with so many users. I suspect Android will continue to be the most at risk and easiest to hack since its open source.

[Chaza]

Originally Posted by dendrin

That and more shady developers are making malware for phone operating systems nowadays with so many users. I suspect Android will continue to be the most at risk and easiest to hack since its open source.

Sadly I can confirm this. I am studying ethical hacking at university and the amount of android exploits developed are unreal.

However Google aren't slouches at patching these though so reporting is your friend!

In terms of apps, Google use an automated checking facility which i believe scans through an app submitted to the play store. However the apps DO NOT go through a manual checking phase (as implemented by apple).

But hey the pros and cons of being open source XD.

The ironic thing is "non smart phones" are run on a much more closed off platform