Post #1997812

2026-04-17 07:09 UTC

@landelare @seanking @IzzyOnDroid I'd be willing to bet that most of the problems come not from non-Play Store sources but from apps that are registered "legitimately" on Play Store, downloaded from Play Store, maybe even stamped with the "ok" from Play Protect. This developer/app registration is going to do absolutely nothing to help with that. And thats rather obvious. Which makes it even more infuriating that the average user is so dumb these days, that they'll just take Googles word for it. I wonder if life is too easy these days. You just press a button and whatever you want appears/happens. And that has made everyone dumb as a boot.

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@IzzyOnDroid@floss.social 2026-04-17 09:20

@ItsePerkele Several years ago, there was a study on "malware coverage in stores". Guess which one had the highest coverage (5% of all their apps that time)? So naming "security" as reason, is so obviously a bogus reason, that even blind folks would see it (no offence to our blind friends here!) without a screen reader (and even our deaf friends cover their ears). Their "safe" browsing skipping scans for their own sites, is also screaming along. @landelare @seanking

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@landelare@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-04-17 10:28

@ItsePerkele @seanking @IzzyOnDroid Not even the average user, I think. The average user can't be expected to be able to see through all this, I'm similarly ignorant on many other topics, and rely on others to help me. But theoretically, the average user should have a government looking out for all the legitimate users' interests, average or not, with experts on hand, who absolutely should see through this, and prevent it before it even starts. Except, alas, corruption.

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