• OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Essentially saying we’ll just ‘install’ piracy, as FitGirl is a major player in the piracy scene (as far as games go, no clue if they do other things).

      Unless I’m wrong and Fitgirl now has repacks for major android/iOS apps that can be utilized through an existing app interface.

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        3 months ago

        And also it’s very probably a malicious app that does in fact not give you any pirated games.

        Probably adware at best. Wouldn’t doubt it also just sends you to non-play apk downloads of malware

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          3 months ago

          The thumbnail says “unofficial” and malicious apps tend to try and trick you into thinking it’s official. So I’m not sure it’s malicious.

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            So them saying it’s unofficial makes you think it is more safe, since surely if it said official it’d be malicious?

            Sounds like putting unofficial there might just make even more people trust it then, good for a malicious app.

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        3 months ago

        Not knowing that I assumed that Fitgirl was just some crappy gooner app that Google automatically promotes.

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      This was supposed to be taken down, but I guess its a proof how you can passively promote piracy on to the play store. This app shows a list of games that have been cracked & repacked

      1000000878

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        I forgot about that, since Voyager doesn’t display avatars. That’s a transparent profile picture. I had problems deleting my old avatar, because avatar deletions didn’t federate, back when I tried it. So I just uploaded a transparent png. Maybe I should upload a new avatar to avoid confusion.

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    Do they have any evidence that F-droid serves more malware than Play Store?

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      I was curious of the same a few days back, and my research couldn’t find a single instance of malware being distributed by the F-Droid store.

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          Oh yeah, it’s bullshit that reduces user agency and choice either way, I just don’t believe for one second that it will improve security as Google is claiming. Its just about control and google consolidating power.

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      According to them, when they added a similar registration process and requirements for the playstore they saw a SIGNIFICANT drop on malware.

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        I don’t find that shocking, and to be honest, I don’t really see too much of a problem with forcing people to give that information to be on the play store. But to let people make programs that run on the hardware at all is crazy. Forbidding third party app stores is the most anti competitive bullshit ever.

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      3 months ago

      Since they force everything to be open source and i think has strict rules, no

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        3 months ago
        1. Write an open source malware
        2. Freely publish it everywhere because everyone assumes someone checked it, because it’s open source, you know?
        3. ???
        4. Profit
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          That’s the thing though if it’s open source and 99.9% don’t check that 0.1% checking it will be enough.

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            By definition in order to have . 1% then the sample size must be greater than 1,000. The vast majority of open source projects will not get to this level.

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              I think for a open source projects with such a low number of users, the first few users will definitely look further than “it’s open source”.

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    Giant corporations, like billionaires, pivot to trying to control the rest of us when they get too big. Google/Alphabet is not exempt. I remember when their motto was “Don’t be evil.” Now they want to control what I can install on the personal devices I bought…