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
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”
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
you get 6 play points for it even
Looks fit though
Do they have any evidence that F-droid serves more malware than Play Store?
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?
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.
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.
This is hilarious. Did not know fit girl was on the play store.
Maybe she isn’t and it’s malware.
What is it and does it have anything to do with Audrey Tautou?
It’s the symbol of that release group. The reason for that is unknown to me.
she’s fit? (UK slang for attractive)
But my gosh doesn’t she know it.
What am I looking at
This was supposed to be taken down, but I guess its a proof how you can passively promote piracy on to the play store. This app shows a list of games that have been cracked & repacked
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.
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
