

After removal of the third party's code, the above-mentioned phenomenon no longer happens. VidMate team has found no evidence of unauthorized charges however, VidMate believ es that a third-party SDK service provider is the culprit of false advertising activities that cause system-level "Danger" alerts and users of VidMate unable to install and upgrade VidMate. It is alleged that VidMate subjects its users to a range of suspicious activities that could cost them money, drain their phone batteries, and collecting suspicious levels of personal data. Below is the summarize result of the internal investigations:

In the past two weeks, VidMate have reviewed all the codes and have scanned all the SDKs. Given that VidMate prohibits collaborating partners from conducting any fraudulent activities in all of its collaboration contracts, VidMate is seeking complete security detections by security companies in order to locate and fix all the potential security issues. As SDK is a kind of technology hard to control by apps, VidMate decided to remove all the commercial SDK in the latest 4.1288 or above versions.Īt the same time, VidMate started comprehensive investigations. To protect users' interests, VidMate immediately cut off relevant third-party SDK service upon receipt of above complaints. VidMate team cares about users' needs, privacy and data security. In addition, some users have experienced system level "Danger" alerts appearing and the automatic removal of the VidMate app during installation and upgrades of the app.

GUANGZHOU, China, J/PRNewswire/ - It has come to VidMate's attention that a recent report alleges VidMate app of draining users' batteries and bandwidth, exposing data, and making unauthorized charges.
