I feel safer with F-droid than I do downloading random unknown apps from Google play.
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.
Yep. And combined with obsidian you can mostly rely on open source apps.
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
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).
