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    Do they have any evidence that F-droid serves more malware than Play Store?

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      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.

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          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.

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      According to them, when they added a similar registration process and requirements for the playstore they saw a SIGNIFICANT drop on malware.

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      Since they force everything to be open source and i think has strict rules, no

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        1. Write an open source malware
        2. Freely publish it everywhere because everyone assumes someone checked it, because it’s open source, you know?
        3. ???
        4. Profit