One other unlawful streaming app has made its method to the App Retailer — but it surely solely surfaces pirated movies for folks in sure areas exterior the US, together with France, Canada, and the Netherlands.
As proven in a submit on Threads, the App Retailer itemizing for “Univer Notice” presents itself as a productiveness platform that may “simply aid you report each day’s occasions and plan your time.” Nonetheless, in the event you’re a consumer in sure nations, like France or Canada, opening the app reveals a set of pirated films, akin to Venom: The Final Dance, Joker: Folie à Deux, and Terrifier 3. Choices inside the app are labeled in French, whereas movies stream of their authentic language with French subtitles or dubbing.
Anybody else who downloads the app in an unsupported area, such because the US, will solely see a productiveness app, a method we’ve seen utilized by different piracy apps to evade detection from reviewers. One latest instance was Kimi earlier this yr, which posed as a vision-testing software and was shortly eliminated after information shops started reporting about it. Apple didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark about this app.
