Remove China Apps - Is it Safe?

[Ink]

Update - 2nd June: Google has removed the app from the Play Store. You can see the developers response here: OneTouch AppLabs – आत्मनिर्भर भारत

Link: Remove China Apps - Apps on Google Play (India)

"The app helps identify and remove apps made in China from your Android smartphones and in a matter of two weeks, has become the number one free app on the Google Play Store in India.

Remove China Apps now has over 1 million downloads, most of them from India. The app itself is made by an Indian startup named OneTouch AppLabs and its Play Store description reads that it’s “being developed for educational purposes only to identify the country of origin of a certain application.” However, the app only scans China-made apps, complete with an option to uninstall them from within the app.

The developers further write in the app description that they detect China-made apps based on market research. However, they do not guarantee the accuracy of the information."

Source:

An app that helps remove China-made apps from your phone has gone viral

It's crossed 1 million downloads in two weeks.

www.androidauthority.com

 

[SumTingWong]

Very good. I and my parents don't like China government at all . We are cool with Chinese folks but not China government.

 

[CyberTech]

I think it's China-india war that's why removing china apps in India

 

[EndangeredPootis]

This needs to become one of the most popular apps.

 

[SumTingWong]

I think it's China-india war that's why removing china apps in India

Or rather China-the whole world trade war right now.

 

[CyberTech]

The whole world trade war? I've read some news China-USA war as well

 

[SumTingWong]

The whole world trade war? I've read some news China-USA war as well

All NATO countries are blaming China for coronavirus outbreak and how the country prevent WHO and other health authority to investigate the virus outbreak source in China. In addition, NATO will or probably sue China for the whole world economy collapse. China hate this and push the trade war against country that blaming China for outbreak and sue for the economy damage. I believe this will trigger the old cold war that got postponed when Soviet Union collapse.

It took America 6 years to create over 50 millions jobs. In just 2 months outbreak in America, America lost more than 50% of the jobs.

 

[bayasdev]

Chinese govt has very questionable practices but software made by chinese individuals is good, software made by chinese govt backed companies bad

 

[roger_m]

I just installed it and somehow it missed all the Chinese apps on my phone.



I didn't want to remove any apps, I was just interested in trying it.

 

[bayasdev]

It's not even available in my country



Looks like a scam for me

 

[roger_m]

It's not even available in my country

Looks like a scam for me

It isn't available in the Play Store for me either. I download it from a third party app store.

If you read article at the Android Authority, it seems to a legitimate app.

 

[HarborFront]

Some of these apps from China are tied in to some Google APIs especially if you buy the phone directly from China. Removing them would render some Google features inoperable

 

[upnorth]

Google has taken down an Android service that helped people delete other apps made in China.

Google takes down app that removes Chinese software

Remove China Apps was developed by an Indian company, amid rising tension between the two nations.

www.bbc.com

 

[roger_m]

I uninstalled it because of its ads. You get occasional notifications advertising apps in the Play Store.

 

[HarborFront]

I uninstalled it because of its ads. You get occasional notifications advertising apps in the Play Store.

Get from other non-Google stores and if you have Adguard or Blokada etc should be able to block the ads

 

[roger_m]

Get from other non-Google stores and if you have Adguard or Blokada etc should be able to block the ads

I had no use for it. I installed it just to take a look. If I had wanted to keep it, I could have disabled notifications in the apps permissions.

 

[bayasdev]

I uninstalled it because of its ads. You get occasional notifications advertising apps in the Play Store.

the cure is worse than the disease