[mirimir]

Yes. These are malware. It's disgusting.

[mirimir]

Belated edit: Anything that does something that you don't want, while pretending to be something that you do want, is malware. Especially if it goes out of the way to do that, evading limits, and hides what it's doing.

[flukus]

Android and all google properties are malware, we just don't have a lot of good alternatives at the moment.