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realusername
on May 21, 2023
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Potentially millions of Android TVs and phones com...
Ironically, the only device I ever had to fix adware was on an iphone. Don't know if it's still possible but all the calendar got infested with ads which notified the user in loops.
bombcar
on May 21, 2023
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For awhile people realized that if you spam calendar invites they appear on your phone. Not sure how rot was solved.
realusername
on May 21, 2023
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It wasn't even an invite, it was a calendar source (not sure of the exact name) which kept spwning more and more events as you go.
hansel_der
on May 27, 2023
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iirc there was a time where spamers would send calender invites to random gmail's
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