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A sneaky piracy app is trending in Apple’s App Store

A streaming piracy app sneaks past Apple’s app review team.

I called Kimi sneaky in the headline, and it is insofar as if you glanced at it, you’d probably dismiss it immediately because it looks so very scammy and it’s actually not the vision testing app it claims to be. There’s a half-assed description (beneath the quarter-assed screenshots) that says it’s “an interesting APP that tests your eyesight,” but also, the top reviews currently say things like, “I downloaded this app to watch frozen II” and “It’s basically like Netflix!” But there’s no effort to couch this in some sort of love of film with cast details or trivia.

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