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Why is Google allowed to remove purchases from our Play Store accounts without telling us? (www.androidpolice.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Actually there's websites with archives of old apk files for apps.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Kinda hard to just trust those sites not to hide malicious shit in there.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    That's why Android apps must be signed. Tools can show an app's certificate hash and if two app versions' hashes match, they're equally trustworthy / from the same source. I think APKMirror does this and it's actually quite trusthworthy.

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