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What's the deal here? Aptoide was malware? Or was it serving malware-infected apps? Or none of the above?
by _dmurph 8y ago
What's the deal here? Aptoide was malware? Or was it serving malware-infected apps? Or none of the above?
- londons_explore 8y agoIt was a super easy place to get pirated apps that had usually been ripped from the play store and modified to open up all in-app purchases for free.
- sleepychu 8y ago+??? Who knows what other modifications were made.
- qwertay 8y agoWho knows what the original play store apps did to begin with. Most of the top apps are basically malware. Maybe someone added a bitcoin miner to the existing spyware that came from the original app but it just comes back to the same thing that you can't trust proprietary software to be safe.
- Goronmon 8y agoBut at least if the original play store apps have spyware issues, you can generally find a developer/company behind them to blame. If Google updates the Gmail app to include a bitcoin miner, people are going to find out and be pissed at Google. If someone takes the Gmail app, injects a bitcoin miner and uploads it to a third-party store, who gets the blame?
- qwertay 8y agoGoogle puts a personal data miner in gmail and no one gives a shit.
- elejo 8y agoThat's the user's responsibility, not Aptoide's.
- ionised 8y agoSounds like heroin dealer logic.
- icebraining 8y agoWill Google pay me damages if they let someone distribute malware on the Play Store, as has happened before? As far as I know, they won't, so how is Aptoide any worse?
- lstodd 8y agoStill true, heroin or not.
- SmellyGeekBoy 8y agoIs there a hard drug equivalent of Godwin's law?
- Markoff 8y agoyou are right, we should ban Chrome and Google search for providing access to pirated apps
- ionised 8y agoThat wasn't the point I was making. My point is that saying it's all the consumers responsibility is a highly one-sided argument in favour of the vendor/service provider. The amount of work a person would have to do to research every facet of every product they buy is insurmountable. There is no possible way for them to know everything about a product they are thinking of buying or using. Expecting the average user to know which apps on any given app store are ridden with malware is a mighty tall order. The customer will always have some level of ignorance about the product, so some measure of consumer protection is required. It's unrealistic.
- boomboomsubban 8y agoNeither. Aptoide allows users to create and share their own repositories, some of which have malware or cracked games.