For those unaware, T-Mobile and Verizon have started pushing an app called Digital Turbine Ignite to their branded phones. This application is able to install additional bloatware to your phone silently in the background. After I finished Thanksgiving dinner I turned my Note 4 on to find that I had three new applications installed and no record of them under My Apps in the Play Store. I figured I had a virus, but nope, just the carrier forcing things onto my device again.
DT Ignite allows carriers to install post-sale bloatware
It's one thing to have bloatware preinstalled, another to install new bloatware in a system update, but to push it silently in the background is a whole different animal. It makes malware detection much harder since your phone's preinstalled software is acting like malware. It concerns me that T-Mobile is continuing to do some very "carrier" things while using free music streaming and etc to distract us.
DT Ignite allows carriers to install post-sale bloatware
It's one thing to have bloatware preinstalled, another to install new bloatware in a system update, but to push it silently in the background is a whole different animal. It makes malware detection much harder since your phone's preinstalled software is acting like malware. It concerns me that T-Mobile is continuing to do some very "carrier" things while using free music streaming and etc to distract us.