What are
/r/PlayStoreTrash's
favorite Products & Services?
From 3.5 billion Reddit comments
The most popular Android Apps mentioned in /r/PlayStoreTrash:
ES File Explorer File Manager
DU Battery Saver - Battery Charger & Battery Life
UC Browser - Fast Download Private & Secure
Clean Master- Space Cleaner & Antivirus
MeetMe: Chat & Meet New People
Solid Explorer File Manager
NetGuard - no-root firewall
LibreTorrent
The most popular reviews in /r/PlayStoreTrash:
Shady Chinese creepware violating your privacy, steals personal info and sends it's to Baidu servers. Paid version is a crazy subscription rip-off. Also endlessly nags you to download additional apps via non-disable-able notification bar pop-ups, annoying floating buttons etc. Bloated with a ton of unnecessary features including cleaners etc.
Play store trash to avoid like a pest.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.estrongs.android.pop
Absolutely! Just sort reviews by 'newest' on most apps and you can see that many have tons of fake reviews that don't even relate to the app that they are posted on. For example:
Both contain hundreds of fake reviews talking about the wonderful radio stations and music that they love listening to. (These apps don't play music)
Serious Chinese trash requesting every possible permission, sending your data, contacts and everything to Chinese servers.
Full list of permissions requested
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chaozhuo.gameassistant
This app has that icon:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.enhanced.skineditorstudio
There might be other ripoffs using the same icon though, all Minecraft related.
Usual low effort trash from hell only made for ad revenues. Adds nothing like his whole rubbish filled portfolio. Right after installing you're pestered with half screen ads, when continuing full page ad popups and phone start behaving weird. Potentially harmful app.
Report this crap to Google if you care your Android.
This app used to be a premium version unlock key for the same developer's Bubble Pro - Notifications in bubble app. In August 2019, it was offered for free for sale, and that's when I downloaded it. Last December it was updated to whatever it currently is.
When you open the app it asks for sign-in, only offers Google plus as sign in method, and even if you sign in that way it doesn't load any content and just freezes. To me, it appears to be a dud pseudo-trash app made to hide the dev taking away the pro unlock keys. By doing this the dev isn't only taking away the freely obtained pro keys, but also the ones legally purchased as well.
If you try to open the link to the app, play store will probably say that such an app doesn't exist. It has a horrendous package name (pa.nm) that doesn't appear on apkpure or such mirroring sites. Again, the developer doesn't want anyone new to install the app (so it doesn't appear on play store to people who don't have it installed), and it wants the people who has it installed to uninstall. People will see an app in their drawer that they didn't install and uninstall it.
I don't know if the bubble pro app offers pro version as an in-app purchase now. I don't have it installed and only got the free pro key app to check it out later. I don't care enough to see. I'll just report the developer to Google.
Phone taken over by ads even without using the app.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.parallax3d.background.wallpaper
From the same developer https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Fancy.,Inc
Avoid this popular "battery-saving" app. For, the app does not have the ability to change how fast your device charges. This is also the king of adverts – it sponsors almost every ad that you see in any other app and manifests its own ads on your lock screen and notifications bar. Also, all those fancy speed graphs and cool animations? Totally fake.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dianxinos.dxbs
Most of what it advertises is harmful to your phone. For example, clearing the cache will ultimately slow your phone down when it needs to be rebuilt, clearing your RAM only leads to more battery usage, and killing running apps does not save your battery as claimed.
Avoid any apps that clean RAM or pretend 'saving battery'.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ushareit.cleanit
Previous named 'Vibrate' with a Viber look-a-like logo, hence a million noobs mistaked it for Viber. Generates popup ads and/or fake lockscreens.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chatmessengers.vibratechat
UC Browser is the most popular Android web browser in China and India. It claims to have a “fast mode” that’ll save you MBs of data usage thanks to compression.
Why it’s bad? Tracking. Users’ search queries are sent without encryption to Yahoo India and Google, a user’s IMSI number, IMEI number, Android ID, and Wi-Fi MAC address are sent without encryption to Umeng (an Alibaba analytics tool), and users’ geolocation data (including longitude/latitude and street name) is transmitted without encryption to AMAP (an Alibaba mapping tool).
More Chinese garbage to avoid like a pest.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.UCMobile.intl