PSA: Verizon's Shady 'DT Ignite' App Is Silently Installing Adware on Phones
A few months ago, it was discovered that Verizon was installing an extremely shady app called "DT Ignite" on some of its smartphones—most notably, the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge. The app, created by Digital Turbine, monitors your smartphone usage, then uses the data it collects to silently install "recommended" apps without notifying you. The above information is nothing new—we've known about it for months, and we've strongly recommended against buying Android phones from Verizon for this very reason. But just today, many users have reported that DT Ignite installed a batch of these random... more
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