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Nice, #Catima is popular enough for cloned versions with the copyright info illegally stripped and advertisement and tracking added to start appearing on the "well-moderated" #GooglePlay store.

It's kinda hilarious to me, because the About screen also contains the privacy policy. Which means that these apps removing the About screen are already breaking Google Play policy by not having a clear privacy policy inside the app.

#googleplay #catima
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Of course, I've reported the clone to Google. Not expecting much though... seeing multiple such apps on this dev's profile.
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Unbelievable. Someone literally stole my app and removed the copyright screen and added ads, I showed clear examples and even stated that all the activity names are the exact same and Google says they "couldn't identify a violation"? Ridiculous.
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As annoyed as I still am by this illegal and malicious closed-source Catima fork I am greatly enjoying that this thief gets called out on their theft everywhere, even on Russian app stores.

I do hope people keep spreading the word about Catima to make it as difficult as possible for this abuser to profit off their malicious fork and so people learn about the FOSS option they have.

A review for the illegal and malicious Catima for dCard (ru.ALKmk.dCard) on RuStore, calling the thief out for stealing Catima (full translation in other alt text)
A machine translation of said preview in the Translate You app: The author is a thief! I took the free (ad-free) open source application Catima, added ads to it and made a paid version to disable it. It’s a shame, I think such developers have no place at all on the RuStore site
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