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

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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
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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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        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.