QuickPic sold to Cheetah Mobile
Just so QuickPic users know, be aware that this fine app that so many of us have relied on for years has been sold to Cheetah Mobile. No doubt they will soon do Bad Things with it, more about that below.
So unfortunately, I must recommend that you uninstall QuikPic and use an alternative app. I am using Google Photos for now. I'll be checking out others and post information on any that seem worthy of serious consideration.
For anyone who hasn't heard, Cheetah Mobile is a company responsible for software notorious for putting up nag ads and scary-sounding false alarms about various supposed threats to your security. Worse than that, they collect, upload and sell your information to others without your knowledge, to be used for targeted ads and who knows what else. To refresh memories further about Cheetah Mobile...here's a post I wrote about an article where the Cheetah Moble CMO says CM is a "data company" and the 'M' in CM stands for monetization. That's not good. He means turning your stolen data into their money. With a link to the original article.
WARNING! He says much more and much worse than that in the linked article. It really is a pretty scary read if you use any Cheetah Mobile software!
http://androidforums.com/threads/cache-cleaner.923369/#post-7001396
Cheetah Mobile software should be considered to be malware.
Cheetah Mobile apps Include all the 'CM' series of apps such as CM Security, plus Cleaner Master and more. Before installing any app, check the permissions and who is the vendor.
And don't let happy talk by Cheetah fool you. What Cheetah Mobile will do with QuickPic is what they do with their other software. They'll give it some 'improvements' to 'enhance the user experience' which is code for we'll add a couple of little things to make you think we're good guys. But the real 'improvements' will be adding code to scarf your information to be uploaded to CM and sold off for doing targeted ads and whatnot.
The double-speak has already started. In another post I predicted: "They'll give it some 'improvements' to 'enhance the user experience' which is code for we'll add a couple of little things to make you think we're good guys."
In their response to a review critical of the company on Google Play, they answered the bad review with: "...good experience that users expect...we will add some valuable functions for FREE."
Close enough.