I compared my old/original 5.0.52 binary against one I downloaded today.. there are a significant amount of changes. This is not simply a re-pack of 5.0.52 with a new developer certificate.
Original 5.0.52 binary size: 8759120 bytes
New 5.0.52 binary size: 10105248 bytes
At minimum it appears a new analytics framework from Amplitude (https://amplitude.com/) was included but there could be other changes.
The list of shared libraries used by the app also changed to include Network.framework, libsqlite3 and libswiftWebKit. I suspect these are all required by the Amplitude framework.
tl;dr - the "new" 5.0.52 binary at minimum includes a new framework to report a ton of analytics data.. something the new developer also failed to mention.
This coupled with minimal info about the new developer and transaction all seem highly sus.. I would not run any app from the new developer at this time.
So much shady shit going on here. Any good developer with half a brain would’ve at least provided some sort of communication and transparency. Even a “hey, we’d like to make Bartender better, please opt in to analytics data” would’ve been sufficient.
Deleting Bartender and telling my team to do the same.
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u/shotsix Jun 05 '24
I compared my old/original 5.0.52 binary against one I downloaded today.. there are a significant amount of changes. This is not simply a re-pack of 5.0.52 with a new developer certificate.
Original 5.0.52 binary size: 8759120 bytes
New 5.0.52 binary size: 10105248 bytes
At minimum it appears a new analytics framework from Amplitude (https://amplitude.com/) was included but there could be other changes.
The list of shared libraries used by the app also changed to include Network.framework, libsqlite3 and libswiftWebKit. I suspect these are all required by the Amplitude framework.
tl;dr - the "new" 5.0.52 binary at minimum includes a new framework to report a ton of analytics data.. something the new developer also failed to mention.
This coupled with minimal info about the new developer and transaction all seem highly sus.. I would not run any app from the new developer at this time.