alt Hacker NewsActual report: https://localmess.github.io/
>Google says it's investigating the abuse
That's a bit ironic, considering how they're using any side channel they could lay their hands on (e.g. Wi-Fi AP names) to track everyone. Basically every large app vendor with multiple apps does something similar to circumvent OS restrictions as well.
if it were a small company, it'd have been dilisted from google's play store in an instant.