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When they say security, they mean their own financial security.
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?
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.
According to them, when they added a similar registration process and requirements for the playstore they saw a SIGNIFICANT drop on malware.
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.
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!🙏🙏🙏
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What am I looking at
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.
Not knowing that I assumed that Fitgirl was just some crappy gooner app that Google automatically promotes.
Yeah fitgirl would never release official android app or any platform for that matter.
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
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
As others have said, Fitgirl is a major player in the games piracy scene. She doesn’t crack the games, but she does repack cracked games (compresses them in clever ways). It’s quite common for people to impersonate her or her site to try to fool people into downloading malware. This seems to be another one of those.
She warns against this quite frequently. From her faq, for example:
"Q: Do you have a Facebook page? A: I didn’t, don’t and won’t have a Facebook page. The same applies to Twitter, Instagram, whatever else. This site is the only official FitGirl Repacks source. If you happen to come here from “Facebook FitGirl Page” – you’ve been fooled by an imposter. "
(Note: this comment is not an endorsement of games piracy, and this community is not the appropriate venue for discussions of that nature. Anyone interested should go to relevant communities like the ones hosted on the db0 Lemmy instance )
Fitgirl is a release group for warez.
This is hilarious. Did not know fit girl was on the play store.
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.
