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.
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.
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.
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
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?