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[–] 183 points 1 year ago (8 children)
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  • [–] 55 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Did you incorporate whitespace into your username? How fascinating.

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  • [–] 139 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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...

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  • [–] 109 points 1 year ago (19 children)

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

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  • [–] 82 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    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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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    But even if it does, what's it to them if something they have no say over affects people not using their stuff?

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago* (9 children)

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

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 102 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    When they say security, they mean their own financial security.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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    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.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    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 )

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    This is hilarious. Did not know fit girl was on the play store.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    What is it and does it have anything to do with Audrey Tautou?

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    [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    I trust apps from f-droid more than any app on Play Storw

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    you get 6 play points for it even

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    amélie poulain aimes creme brulee

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    that's why duckduck gang 4 life

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