Big tech security

for "security"

security of our bottom line!
- 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.
Did you incorporate whitespace into your username? How fascinating.
- I forgot about that, since Voyager doesn't display avatars. That's a transparent profile picture. I had problems deleting my old avatar, because avatar deletions didn't federate, back when I tried it. So I just uploaded a transparent png. Maybe I should upload a new avatar to avoid confusion.
the securities of shareholders

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...

When a company changes their motto away from "don't be evil" you know damn well they are evil.
They still have that motto:
Don't be evil ^{to the shareholders}

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

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.
- But even if it does, what's it to them if something they have no say over affects people not using their stuff?
- ~~Ad block~~ malware being distributed by the F-Droid store
Since they force everything to be open source and i think has strict rules, no
- Write an open source malware
  Freely publish it everywhere because everyone assumes someone checked it, because it's open source, you know?
  ???
  Profit
According to them, when they added a similar registration process and requirements for the playstore they saw a SIGNIFICANT drop on malware.
- 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.
- That's because the playstore caters to everyone, including the children and the dumbest people on the planet.

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

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.
- I'll take that bet.
  I am going to bet they come for Rooting next. Unlockable Bootloaders.
  In fact they already have started
  https://github.com/zenfyrdev/bootloader-unlock-wall-of-shame

What am I looking at

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.
- And also it's very probably a malicious app that does in fact not give you any pirated games.
  Probably adware at best. Wouldn't doubt it also just sends you to non-play apk downloads of malware
- Not knowing that I assumed that Fitgirl was just some crappy gooner app that Google automatically promotes.
This was supposed to be taken down, but I guess its a proof how you can passively promote piracy on to the play store. This app shows a list of games that have been cracked & repacked
https://trishiraj.me/
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 )
Fitgirl is a release group for warez.

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

What is it and does it have anything to do with Audrey Tautou?
- It's the symbol of that release group. The reason for that is unknown to me.
Maybe she isn't and it's malware.
Did not know they were considered insecure either.

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

you get 6 play points for it even

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that's why duckduck gang 4 life