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Meitu blazing up the app store charts, but the code makes us nervous

2017-01-19
the next photo filter craze is anime face app may too if you've been seeing hyper-realistic anime portraits in your social media timelines that look like knock off sailor moon you're familiar with me to the app uses filters to give faces porcelain skin exaggerated eyes and other features that make a person look like they stepped off the pages of their favorite manga may two isn't a new app it's actually been around in China since 2008 but recently it released its cross-dimensional camera updates which is when download started skyrocketing some of the best uses of the app have been pictures of people who would never use may to getting a kawaii makeover including Alan Rickman's Professor Snape president-elect Donald Trump and Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance from the shining there is one thing we feel obligated to tell you though even though may 2 is a free app there are some concerning lines of code that you should know about digital forensics expert Jonathan's ajar ski shout out multiple tweets showing the app has not one not two but three checks for jailbroken iPhones and it also does some other things the App Store is not actually supposed to allow he concluded quote may two is a throw together of multiple analytics and marketing / ad tracking packages with something cute to get people to use it unquote so while we fully endorsed you transforming even the grumpiest of faces into hilarious beautiful ish anime images it's also important to remember that free apps usually mean that you and your data are the price you're really paying that being said if you decide to use me to send me your very best anime images i'm at ashley Esqueda on twitter beacon humans
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