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by joby_toss » Sun May 24, 2015 12:06 am
It's much easier (on the mind) to assume that every app you're using has privacy issues and adapt your actions accordingly than to wake up reading articles like this...
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Midas
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by Midas » Sun May 24, 2015 3:58 am
Sadly, yes. But that caused me to stop using my so called smartphone for anything remotely sensitive...
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by tproli » Sun May 24, 2015 4:24 am
Interestingly nowadays we give money to companies to let them know anything about us...
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by joby_toss » Sun May 24, 2015 10:48 pm
Heck, we're buying TV's for more than half a century thinking we're in for a treat when it comes to entertainment...
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by webfork » Wed Jul 08, 2015 3:24 pm
Midas wrote:I really liked UC Browser
Yeah me too. I hadn't tested it on Windows because it's closed-source but they have some of the best usability I've seen on a mobile device. Sadly, they didn't seem to keep up with older devices like mine as it crashes quite a bit.
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by spicydog » Tue Nov 03, 2015 12:02 am
Midas wrote:I agree some of the entries are ancient. But being old don't necessarily make it bad -- I know, I'm old, too, and I still run Windows XP.
Please enlighten us with a better list or else some substantive reasons why some particular software on the list might be bad...

Hey buddy, long time no hear
I accidentally came across your post and only after having read it I realized it was you who posted it... I couldn't have written that concept better myself even if tried!
All the best,
SD
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Midas
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by Midas » Tue Nov 03, 2015 6:34 am
Many thanks for the heads up, my dear
spicydog.
BTW, here's a couple of
Android related online resources I've been using lately -- but only useful if you are able and willing to
sideload apps:
The later two allow anyone to download directly from
Google Play to your desktop instead of your device.
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by spicydog » Tue Nov 03, 2015 11:52 pm
Thanks, dear friend
I personally use
http://www.apkpure.com/ that seems to work quite fine to download .apk files directly to the lap/desktop.
A few months back I used
http://apps.evozi.com/apk-downloader/ but I oftentimes noticed that some apps aren't updated and using the "request newer version" feature is slow and doesn't always provide best results.
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by Midas » Wed Nov 04, 2015 4:04 am
spicydog wrote:A few months back I used
http://apps.evozi.com/apk-downloader/ but I oftentimes noticed that some apps aren't updated and using the "request newer version" feature is slow and doesn't always provide best results.
- I can confirm your observation about Evozi APK Downloader -- I only mentioned it because it was the original APK downloader service, issued from the folds of the mythic XDA-Devs forums...

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by nicklucas » Sat Nov 28, 2015 10:55 am
Midas wrote:Many thanks for the heads up, my dear
spicydog.
BTW, here's a couple of
Android related online resources I've been using lately -- but only useful if you are able and willing to
sideload apps:
The later two allow anyone to download directly from
Google Play to your desktop instead of your device.
Few more options from where you could try to downloading apks:
http://www.apk4fun.com
http://www.apkmonk.com
http://www.apk-dl.com
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Midas
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by Midas » Thu Mar 31, 2016 1:55 am
There are possible solutions -- unfortunately, most require a "
rooted" device: