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[–] stardust 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I feel safer with F-droid than I do downloading random unknown apps from Google play.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Yep. And combined with obsidian you can mostly rely on open source apps.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I rarely get anything from the play store. Usually f-droid or one of the other apps like Droidify or Izzy, and Aurora. Once in a while an app demands to verify with the Play store for the life of me I have no idea why… Plexus has helped with that sometimes, but sometimes doesn’t work.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

human staffers and AI-powered algorithms prevented 2.36 million "policy-violating apps" from appearing on Google Play in 2024

I wouldn't assume it's 100% malware. A portion, hopefully a small one, are legitimate apps that faced automated rejection with automatically generated reply citing a vague "policy-violation". A few open-source apps wrote on their blog they gave up uploading to Google Play because of its disfunctional moderation. Some even gave up developing their app.

For instance, see https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-android/issues/2064

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yep, many false positives while only blocking 1.5% of all malicious apps, plus installing Play Protect on phones to "block malware" from the Play Store.

It's like someone wrote a comedy based on the worst way to prevent malicious app installs.

Which begs the question, what's the real purpose of Play Protect? Protect your FROM Play Store installations? 😁

(Yea, that 1.5% is a totally made up number, it's as real as Google's malware prevention and the protection provided by Play Protect).