Comment by tecleandor
15 hours ago
"We are a Swedish company building products that help people get online, used by millions of people worldwide."
So I look for them. They have a "Free wifi connection" / "Wifi passwords map" app. It surprises me because it has a good score on Google Play but then I begin to check the reviews, and a bunch of them go like: "Five stars because if you do a good review you can use it for free".
I install it and on starting it and in the first minute: Asks you to create an account but you can't click on the terms of service or privacy policy, the links don't work. I skip it. It tries to change your default launcher. It tries to change your default browser. It asks you to share your home wifi password with them. Pops up adds everywhere. Tries to get a good review from you.
No thanks, not even near.
giving anything to the user in return for a good review should be grounds for disqualification from app stores. (and it should be legally required for app stores to enforce it)
Since they claim to be a Swedish company, it might be worth filing a report with the Swedish consumer agency[0].
I am not a lawyer, and especially not a Swedish lawyer, so I can't say how illegal this is in Sweden or what if anything will happen.
[0]https://www.konsumentverket.se/en/articles/report-to-the-swe...
The Sweden that gave us Spotify and Candy Crush (the game that showed every tech company that they need to incorporate really really awful manipulation of users)?
That country loves their evil software.
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Apparently they made €7.2 million in profit in 2024.
https://www.allabolag.se/foretag/instabridge-sweden-ab/stock...
SEK, not EUR.
No, I calculated the exchange.