HOW these APPLICATIONS TRACK you !!!! | *FAMOUS* HARMFUL APPLICATIONS you should UNINSTALL right now!! | Dangerous ANDROID APPS!!

We usually download applications which are very popular on play store, has a massive number of downloads, good reviews and more number stars. But do you know, many applications are trendy on play store and have a vast number of downloads, but still, they are applications of enormous risk to you and your device. These applications can be seen in many people's phones, but they are not that safe to use. Here you will get to know about some of these applications and about how to identify that some particular application is safe or not. Also, here you will get to know how to identify or find out what information or data some particular application is taking or what are the permissions granted to an application. 

The first category of application that holds the first position in this list is the cleaning applications or the RAM/Memory/Power Boosting applications, which assure people that it can boost there phone's performance and make there phone work faster and with more efficiency. The reality of such apps is that they ask hell many permissions! Including access to storage, locations, phone book, messages and whatnot. These applications can risk your privacy as they can get access to your phone's data as well as your location. The common thing in all such applications is that they show many ads. Ads about products you searched on some shopping websites, ads about useless applications, and a lot more ads about websites and apps. They guarantee to boost your phone's performance, but instead of enhancing the performance, they stand out to be the number one application to reduce your phone's performance! Isn't it ironic?

There are several popular applications like the clean master, phone booster, battery booster, 360 security, etc. All these applications shouldn't be downloaded. Your phone does not require such applications. Your phone has got enough to handle itself. What you need to do is clear out some of the useless photos and videos and free up space. Let your phone breath!

The next category of applications that you should not download is the file managers. These are again the most downloaded applications on the play store. The reason one should keep his/her phone away from such apps is that these applications also risk you and your phone's privacy. They, too, ask for many permissions, which might look weird. They have access to all your photos and videos and other data that you may not want to share with anybody. You should always be a bit alert while downloading such applications. First of all, downloading such applications from third-party sources is like putting your private data in the hands of some unknown company! It is suggested to use the default/inbuilt app for managing files that are already present in your phone. Also, if you want to use some other app, then use the play store to download. 

There are a lot of other unsafe applications that are available on the internet and the play store, which are being used by thousands of people. The good thing about the play store is that such applications do not stay here for too long. They are thrown out as soon as any vulnerability is observed in these apps. Now, let's talk about how to identify whether an application is safe to download or not.

How to identify whether an application is safe to download or not:

First of all, if you are downloading an application from a third-party source, then it has a high chance of being unsafe. Whenever you download an app, the first thing you should do is to observe what permissions the application is asking. People generally do not pay attention is such things, and they such keep on pressing the allow button without even noticing what is being allowed. An application of flashlight will never ask you permission for location or storage or phonebook. These applications have something else in there mind! So, it is better to keep an eye on the permission the application is asking. 

You can also go into your phone's settings and check out the various permission given to the applications you have downloaded till now. If you find any weird permission granted, kick out the application form your phone. These applications misuse the permissions granted, they extract out data and send them to there server without informing you. You will use the application as a standard calculator, and in the background, your data will be stolen. This is the way such applications work.

So, this was a small piece of information about how you can protect your device from such harmful android applications and how you can keep yourself safe. This is a vast topic to talk upon, but I have shared all the essential facts about it so that you can be safe, and you should share this with your friends and make them also aware of these facts.