12 Dangerous Android Apps You Should Delete From Your Phone Immediately

9QuickPic

This was one of the friendlier apps in the past being an easy photo gallery. It was subsequently purchased by Cheetah Mobile who started uploading user data to their servers. The evidence was provided by one Google user who found a raft of new DNS requests which he attributed to the app. 

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10ES File Explorer

This was an amazing app five years ago but the free version is now pumped up with bloatware and adware which nags you a lot to download additional apps through bar notification popup that cannot be disabled.

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11UC Browser

UC browser is a popular Android web browser in both India and China. It comes as a default browser in Lenovo phones and claims a fast mode that will save you a lot of memory because of compression.

The bad thing about UC browser its tracking where users search queries are sent to Yahoo India and Google without encryption which includes a user’s IMEI number, Android ID and WI-FI Mac among others. It uses non encrypted geolocation data to transmit to AMAP an Alibaba mapping tool. 

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12Music player

Among dangerous android apps to delete, Music Player has too many ads but what irks users most is the huge amounts of data it eats through and also destroys battery. People have reported gigabytes of data being consumed as well as massive battery usage.

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