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Oops, Apple approved another illegal streaming app


The app presents itself differently based on your location.

By Emma Roth, a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. As shown in a post on Threads, the App Store listing for “Univer Note” presents itself as a productivity platform that can “easily help you record every day’s events and plan your time.” However, if you’re a user in certain countries, like France or Canada, opening the app shows a collection of pirated movies, such as Venom: The Last Dance, Joker: Folie à Deux, and Terrifier 3. One recent example was Kimi earlier this year, which posed as a vision-testing tool and was quickly removed after news outlets began reporting about it.

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