BLU Products switches from ADUPS Chinese spyware to Google OTA app
In a way, this doesn't really come as a surprise since BLU had been switching from the Chinese software coming pre-installed on its phones ordered from China for a couple of years now.
The reason seems to be the fact that the makers of ADUPS, Shanghai Adups Technology, went rogue and hidden its software despite the fact that BLU specifically asked them not to put their app on their phones.
BLU CEO Sammy Ohev-Zion confirmed that his company has a correspondence with the Chinese company proving that they have violated their request.
We have an email history with Adups saying we did not want that functionality on our devices, and they violated our request. We are a hard-working, American, family-owned business, and we are the last people on Earth that would engage in anything that would abuse our hard-earned customer relationship.
Although BLU patched the ADUPS backdoor as soon as the security firm Kryptowire found it, U.S. customers' trust is hard to regain. BLU also announced that all its smartphones launched from December will have Google's OTA application pre-installed instead of the Chinese ADUPS solution.
source: PCMag
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