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0 pointsGeekyBear2y ago0 comments

> I highly doubt if there is a difference, it's due to non-Google App stores or sideloading.

Tech journalists have literally warned Android users that they need to be wary of apps from inside Google's walled garden.

> With malicious apps infiltrating Play on a regular, often weekly, basis, there’s currently little indication the malicious Android app scourge will be abated. That means it’s up to individual end users to steer clear of apps like Joker. The best advice is to be extremely conservative in the apps that get installed in the first place. A good guiding principle is to choose apps that serve a true purpose and, when possible, choose developers who are known entities. Installed apps that haven’t been used in the past month should be removed unless there’s a good reason to keep them around.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/09/joker...

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willsmith722y ago

Once you've submitted apps for review enough times, you get to know how arbitrary the review process is.

Many, many people game the system in terms of in-app payments, e.g. showing a link to subscribe on their website but hiding the link for the review.

If they can't catch that, why do you they can catch anything?

LtWorf2y ago

I disable autoupdate for apps on android, since all it does is bring in more ads normally. I manually update webview every once in a while and that's it.

Also, most of my apps come from fdroid anyway.

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