The Avito application disappeared from the App Store

The application of the largest Avito ads service in Russia has disappeared from the Apple App Store app store.

Read more. At the moment, in the search for the Russian store, the App Store at the request of “Avito” is displayed by the competing “Yula” application.

• The authors of the Russian Marketing telegram channel suggest that the application was removed for using the Appsee service. He records what is happening on the user screen.
• The Avito press service at The Bell replied that the application is temporarily inaccessible due to updating the rules for considering the application store-the App Store Review Guideline.
• When asked if this is due to the use of Appsee, the head of PR Avito Andrei Barkovsky said: “We are understanding. In general, there is nothing wrong with [Appsee], it is not a fact that [the incident is connected] with it. ” He added that Appsee uses a lot of companies.
• Avito has already provided Apple with a new release of the application, taking into account the requirements. In the near future, as the company hopes, it will become available again.

Context. On February 7, Apple asked the developers to open or remove the code that records the user screen from the applications.

• Changes in the rules appeared shortly after the journalistic investigation of TechCrunch.
• Employees of the publication found that many applications, including Hotels.com and Air Canada, use the Glassbox service similar to the Appsee service.
• This is not the first time when the screen recording with popular applications is a surprise for users. In August 2018, the Russian userdiscovered that the Burger King application records the user screen. The scandal followed, the network of restaurants stated that in this way it does not collect personal data of users. Later, it was no longer a question of recording the screen, but Roskomnadzor became interested in the collection, processing and localization of stored data.

Alexander Ambzin