#fleeceware
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #fleeceware from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
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Day-by-day usage
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-14 18:53 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-10-14 18:53 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #fleeceware.
Live pulse
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-14 18:53 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 10 public posts (spanning ~51921 hours).
Posting hours (UTC)
Languages: English (5) · German (3) · Spanish (1) · Russian (1)
Avg boosts / post: 0.6
Top of the latest posts
📰 Fraudulent 'CallPhantom' Apps on Google Play Scammed 7.3 Million Users SCAM ALERT: 28 'CallPhantom' apps on Google Play tricked 7.3M users into paying for a fake call history service. The fleeceware apps have been removed, but the incide
🧩 3️⃣ Fleeceware: apps que te “despluman” con suscripciones ocultas. Las apps llamadas fleeceware ofrecen “pruebas gratis” y funcionalidades útiles, pero ocultan suscripciones caras que empiezan a cobrarse automáticamente al terminar el pe
⚠️ Obacht: Es gibt mittlerweile eine große Anzahl an #ChatGPT-Nachahmungen in den AppStores von #Apple und #Google. Die wollen alle nur dein Bestes: Deinen Geldbeutel 👻. #Fleeceware https://t.co/4pOUoWFbsY
What “fleeceware” means
WikipediaFleeceware is a type of malware mobile application that come with hidden, excessive subscription fees. These applications also take advantage of users who do not know how to cancel a subscription to keep charging them long after they have deleted the application. As of 2020, more than 600 million users installed Android fleeceware apps from the Play Store. The term was coined in 2019 by British researchers.
“Fleeceware” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#fleeceware across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #fleeceware straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.
Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/fleeceware