Millions of affected users
Among the applications, present on a list that Numerama website was able to examine and who use this software, we find courier and delivery services, mainly used in Russia. But, other apps are very well known in France, such as the carpooling platform Blablacar as well as many popular games like Helix Jump, Sudoku.com, Akinator, Solitaire and many others. The Reverso translation service but also the RTL radio application use AppMetrica.
Thus, several million users would be affected by this data collection. Using data provided by Appfiguresan application analysis service, the Financial Times was able to relay the information.
Games, useful apps
Games represent more than 40% of the applications using this software, this is the case of the apps developed by Easy Brain, one of the leaders in the sector (1 billion downloads claimed), the French publisher Voodoo or even Saygame. Games such as sudoku, puzzles or cards are among the most downloaded. Finally, many applications for scanning, converting a document, making a simple photo montage are also in the list.