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I trust apps from f-droid more than any app on Play Storw
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
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
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^
Do they have any evidence that F-droid serves more malware than Play Store?
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.
That’s because the playstore caters to everyone, including the children and the dumbest people on the planet.
you get 6 play points for it even
What am I looking at
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 )
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
Fitgirl is a release group for warez.
