No surprise there. Was dating a girl and she asked me to sign up so she can get some discount. I already knew it was a trash app but signed up anyway, because sex.

I’ve never seen a more cancerous app in my life. Got her the discount she needed, promptly deleted my account and uninstalled.

Tried browsing Temu on mobile browser. Fucking impossible. They push the app so hard that the website is basically unusable after few clicks. Compared to them, Reddit’s gentle reminder feels like a favor.

Anyway, turned me off totally from the site. If someone wants me to use their app when I’m potentially a paying customer, website or not, seems really suspicious. Seems like my instincts were correct.

I’ve never used Temu and for all I know they’re questionable, but this article is not itself very credible. It’s heavy on uncited economic assertions, makes a hackneyed national security argument, and is actually very light on the technical security details. Plus it suggests nonsense like TikTok not requiring the android.permission.INTERNET permission, lol.

On their “About” page they gladly announce that they’re a private company hired by big corps and finance bros so on, and they have an unexplained focus on China. I suspect they take money to do hit jobs.

I’d be interested to see a security comparison between, say, Temu, Amazon, and Facebook apps.

Who could have seen that coming?

anyone should stay away from temu; they say they will accept returns for only if you have few of them and they won’t refund anymore than that

Every frighin app is “spyware”

Could be true, but I will wait to believe it until I read it on something other than someone’s blog.

shocked pikachu face