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The scams are likely to some from outside Play. In the US, these scams don't run because iPhone is the dominant platform and side loading in iOS is not possible
by fluidcruft 7mo ago
The scams are likely to some from outside Play. In the US, these scams don't run because iPhone is the dominant platform and side loading in iOS is not possible. In the rest of world they are widespread.
- benoau 7mo agoOutside Play, on YouTube or via Google Ads for many of them. Likewise for Meta ads.
- fluidcruft 7mo agoThe scams that are happening in the rest of world are calls posing as bank support about urgent security issues and telling people to install apps to protect their accounts.
- direwolf20 7mo agoIn the USA they tell you to install AnyDesk and remote access your computer. Or they just ask for your password. Or forge a check.
- fluidcruft 7mo agoDoes not sound like an Android problem. Maybe ask Microsoft or Apple about that.
- happymellon 7mo agoAll the scams are for apps that are already in the Play and App store.
- goku12 7mo agoAbsolutely! Never had one problem with apps on FDroid. Not even when tbe Simple Mobile Tools suite was sold to a shady company without a heads up to its users. And that safety isn't an accident.
- fluidcruft 7mo agoI don't disagree about that.
- happymellon 7mo agoAh, sorry there seem to be a lot of people that seem to think that side loading is an issue to anything other than Apple and Googles profit margins. They let so much malware in their stores already.
- LocalH 7mo agoSideloading is very possible on iOS and there's an entire subculture surrounding it.
- fluidcruft 7mo agoNot widespread enough to be a viable grift target.
- goku12 7mo agoAnd how much grift happens through Android side loading? (BTW, I hate that weasel word used to vilify a perfectly reasonable activity.) Practically all grift on Android happens through apps on the Play Store. People who know how to 'side load' are also usually careful and smart enough to think about what they're putting in. That's not a useful target for grifts either. As somebody put it, Google goes after others without cleaning their own house first. It's just abuse of power at this point.
- fluidcruft 7mo agoApparently it's widespread in Asia and South America.
- fsflover 7mo agoAre Debian repos a viable grift target?
- fluidcruft 7mo agoWhat does that have to do with Android and iOS?
- fsflover 7mo agoFree software protects from malware, not walled gardens.
- soraminazuki 7mo ago"Likely"? Do you mean that based on actual data, or are you using it as a weasel word so you can present whatever convenient "facts" that benefit Google as truth? I’m betting on the latter. No Kitboga video mentions custom Android apps. What actually appears on almost all videos are online ads/spam or fake celebrity accounts messaging random people on Facebook. It's funny how you aggressively push solutions that ignore the most common scam vectors investigators encounter. Could it be a coincidence that your proposal conveniently places every aspect of people’s lives at the mercy of big businesses? Or that the scam vector you downplay, ads and social media, just happens to be cash cows for some of the richest companies in history? We already have plenty of paid lobbyists cheering the transfer of wealth from the poorest to the richest. There's no need to do that dirty work for free. Weaponizing the elderly being scammed of their life savings while protecting those that benefit from it is beyond messed up.
- fluidcruft 7mo agoMy proposal? Who exactly do you think I am? lol