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Why should they? It’s your device. You own it. It’s your responsibility to make sure you don’t install malicious code.
by 39896880 2y ago
Why should they? It’s your device. You own it. It’s your responsibility to make sure you don’t install malicious code.
- immibis 2y agoGoogle promises that apps in the app store are safe.
- horsawlarway 2y agoIn the most basic sense - they should be concerned about malicious code because they're busy advertising and distributing those apps for a cut of the profit. If Google were to say "No more checking for vulnerabilities in FDroid... (or insert other)" I would agree with your take - that seems like common sense. Not their store, not their problem. Same for side-loaded apps. But that's not what's happening. They're busy selling those malicious/vulnerable apps for a cut of the profit. Now - Google can be a responsible party here without having this program (there are plenty of valid discussions around whether this was really an effective way to combat malware on their store) - but to recap... The store doesn't get to absolve themselves of responsibility for the things it's selling. "It's the store's responsibility not to sell me malicious/defective products". If they can't do that... maybe they shouldn't be allowed to operate that store anymore.
- 39896880 2y agoAs of March 2024, ~97 percent of apps in the Google Play app store were freely available. So they’re not selling much.
- dartos 2y agoThe money isn’t in the apps themselves. App devs pay Google to promote their apps and Google likely takes a cut of any micro transactions that go through their pay platform
- goldfishgold 2y agoWhat a ridiculous idea. You think your mother should or is capable of auditing the Facebook app before installing it?
- 39896880 2y agoI bought my mom an iPhone.
- IAmLiterallyAB 2y agoAnd everyone knows its impossible to write malicious code for an iPhone...
- fennecfoxy 2y agoThe baddies just switch to social engineering hacks anyways.
- dartos 2y agoIn a perfect world, everyone would verify all software.
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- fennecfoxy 2y agoIt's your wall socket, it's your car, it's your organs that need surgery, therefore it's your responsibility to make sure it's electrically safe, mechanically safe, that you do your own surgery correctly, that your boat, etc. Yeah, nah.