Weirdness from AliExpress

CarsAndGuitars · 04-02-2023, 07:57 AM

I have been on AliExpress for maybe 1.5 - 2 months. I have been on the site around 20 times total and placed orders for 2 items.

Poking around in my phone this morning I have ~1GB (985MB) of data from AliExpress!!

WTF are they pushing to / doing with my phone??

Rdurty2 · 04-02-2023, 12:12 PM

What does this have to do with our cars?

CarsAndGuitars · 04-02-2023, 02:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Rdurty2

What does this have to do with our cars?

Because many of us buy parts from the same site. So even though I didn't explicitly ask, I guess I was wondering if anyone saw the same oddity.. ?

SlowG42 · 04-02-2023, 02:59 PM

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Originally Posted by CarsAndGuitars

Because many of us buy parts from the same site. So even though I didn't explicitly ask, I guess I was wondering if anyone saw the same oddity.. ?

I just looked, been using for about a year and have used 1gb of data. Should be a way to disable it from using data in the background.

Invisiblename · 04-03-2023, 01:36 AM

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Originally Posted by CarsAndGuitars

Because many of us buy parts from the same site. So even though I didn't explicitly ask, I guess I was wondering if anyone saw the same oddity.. ?

What, so you're questioning whether a Chinese company is doing something 'behind the scenes' on your phone? Surely not!

viperx100 · 04-03-2023, 05:40 PM

It was only a matter of time. Tik....Tok....

M240SLC · 04-04-2023, 03:58 PM

Don't worry, that balloon was only reporting back weather info.

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