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you get 6 play points for it even
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This is hilarious. Did not know fit girl was on the play store.
Maybe she isn’t and it’s malware.
I trust apps from f-droid more than any app on Play Storw
What am I looking at
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.
Not knowing that I assumed that Fitgirl was just some crappy gooner app that Google automatically promotes.
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
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.
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.
We’re on like, what, three levels of reverse psychology now?
Do they have any evidence that F-droid serves more malware than Play Store?
According to them, when they added a similar registration process and requirements for the playstore they saw a SIGNIFICANT drop on malware.
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.
Since they force everything to be open source and i think has strict rules, no
- Write an open source malware
- Freely publish it everywhere because everyone assumes someone checked it, because it’s open source, you know?
- ???
- Profit
I mean, there are many excellent open source malware.
The ??? Is mostly phishing campaigns, I think.
That’s the thing though if it’s open source and 99.9% don’t check that 0.1% checking it will be enough.
Thank God for Tylenol.
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.
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”.
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.
But even if it does, what’s it to them if something they have no say over affects people not using their stuff?
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.
Like Bluetooth requiring location permissions?
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…
When a company changes their motto away from “don’t be evil” you know damn well they are evil.
They still have that motto:
Don’t be evil ^to the shareholders^
for “security”
Did you incorporate whitespace into your username? How fascinating.
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.
security of our bottom line!
Security from the evil villains who want to block ads. Jesus would have wanted everyone to watch ads as god intended, and these degenerates need to be taken down.
AMEN!🙏🙏🙏
This crucification is sponsored by Nord VPN
When they say security, they mean their own financial security.
I’m almost certain that rooting is going to come back with a vengeance and we’ll be doing ever so slightly more complicated workarounds. Fuck Google. I refuse to watch a YouTube ad or sponsor unless I directly consent to supporting that individual creator.
I’ll take that bet.
I am going to bet they come for Rooting next. Unlockable Bootloaders.
In fact they already have started
https://github.com/zenfyrdev/bootloader-unlock-wall-of-shame
