@arstechnica Even worse is the ecological footprint and #waste when you shop on such platforms. Incidentally, this one is also controversial because of its manufacturing conditions. What appears to be cheap usually comes at a high, invisible price.
@arstechnica Apart from that, many products are often illegal to be imported (e.g. Nazi memorabilia or products containing banned chemicals), but the user counts as the importer, not Temu. I don't know if they changed the T&Cs in the meantime, but I don't have time to study mercantile law just to use an online shop.
@arstechnica I'll be honest, my bullshit detector is going off pretty loud. they're claiming that the malicious behaviour is in a "cryptically named function [... that] is not visible to security scans before or during installation of the app, or even with elaborate penetration testing" - then how did they find it? most of the claims read as if they've never seen an app permissions list before, looked at Temu's, and assumed malice because China Bad™