We analyzed 149 negative reviews of Flightradar24 | Flight Tracker from the App Store. Here's what users are saying.
Excessive ads and data privacy concerns
"'Ads make it unusable'"
"'Stop trying to sell my data'"
If you don’t pay for the service, the ads that pay for this app redirect you to obvious malicious websites: telling me my credit card has been hijacked, and there are illegal Apple purchases? Give me a break!
I’ve had the app for years, I’ve never experienced so many ads since having it. At first I never had any, then the ads started after viewing5 planes. Now I get ads as soon as I open the app most of the time.
Doesn’t show all the planes. Looking three in the sky and none on the app.
I understand ads for a free app, but ads that don’t close is a new low in advertising.
Every single time I try to create an account, the entire app freezes. So I’m paying for the gold membership, yet can’t use all the perks because it won’t let me create an account. I even tried on the website, but it keeps opening the app on my phone to create an account which then freezes
I just downloaded this app today. Using it the first time- I got a pop up over to safari, telling me that a 349.99 dollar charge was put on hold at Apple Pay. It said I need to call Apple support right away to make sure that it doesn’t go through. It gave me a number for Apple support to call. I d...
Every few weeks it pops up the same consent request to track me and sell my location and private data. I’m a paying subscriber. Despite rejecting this they pop it up again and again and again defaulting (of course) to letting them violate my privacy. You cannot use the app unless you agree (which th...
got the app to see planes around my house and wanting to watch what’s going on overseas right now and got a bunch of ads and now apparently my phone got hacked while on the app… just putting this so people can see but app is very buggy and slow and barely shows any military planes
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