Google Play has been spreading advanced Android malware for years
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Re: Google Play has been spreading advanced Android malware for years
#2Oh yeah, they can spread malware for months, but I submit one fucking app that allows you create signs for your business for COVID-19 and all of a sudden I get a 'Sensitive Events Violation Suspension' and get a ding on my Google Play account.
Google has become Apple except worse because at least Apple is reachable.
Re: Google Play has been spreading advanced Android malware for years
#3Does google know which apps were infected and does it plan on letting folks installed know? It’s unfortunate their own project zero didn’t catch this.
Re: Google Play has been spreading advanced Android malware for years
#4Oh yeah, they can spread malware for months, but I submit one fucking app that allows you create signs for your business for COVID-19 and all of a sudden I get a 'Sensitive Events Violation Suspension' and get a ding on my Google Play account. Google has become Apple except worse because at least Apple is reachable.
Apple is pretty much the same, I've been trying to create a developer account for three entire weeks and it still shows as "pending" without info. I saw on the forums that for some people it can take months. It looks like some bureaucratic government body from the 90s.
I now advise my friends to switch to Android if they want to see the app, there's a limit on what I can put with. These companies should just be broken up in pieces.
Re: Google Play has been spreading advanced Android malware for years
#5Oh yeah, they can spread malware for months, but I submit one fucking app that allows you create signs for your business for COVID-19 and all of a sudden I get a 'Sensitive Events Violation Suspension' and get a ding on my Google Play account. Google has become Apple except worse because at least Apple is reachable.
My app got suspended because my self publish ebook reader could be used to search for books one of which had a kid with a nerf gun on its cover.
Re: Google Play has been spreading advanced Android malware for years
#6Oh yeah, they can spread malware for months, but I submit one fucking app that allows you create signs for your business for COVID-19 and all of a sudden I get a 'Sensitive Events Violation Suspension' and get a ding on my Google Play account. Google has become Apple except worse because at least Apple is reachable.
My app got suspended because my self publish ebook reader could be used to search for books one of which had a kid with a nerf gun on its cover.
Sad times we live in.
Re: Google Play has been spreading advanced Android malware for years
#7Let this be another nail in the coffin of the "walled garden" farce.
We learn this lesson again and again. People want someone to trust, but a bureaucracy isn't trustworthy. It has its own agenda and values inconsistent with yours. They take 30% from everybody whether they approve malware or not, and whether they reject legitimate apps or not.
Trust doesn't come from size. If you want someone to vet your apps, it has to be someone whose interests are actually aligned with yours, not just whoever is big enough to force everybody through the tollgate into their store.
Re: Google Play has been spreading advanced Android malware for years
#8Let this be another nail in the coffin of the "walled garden" farce. We learn this lesson again and again. People want someone to trust, but a bureaucracy isn't trustworthy. It has its own agenda and values inconsistent with yours. They take 30% from everybody whether they approve malware or not, and whether they reject legitimate apps or not. Trust doesn't come from size. If you want someone to vet your apps, it has…
I would still prefer to have to trust just one authority for my platform than a multitude of random developers.
> Let this be another nail in the coffin of the "walled garden" farce.
There is no coffin, the walled gardens are not dying, and have long since become the norm, which happened because the people found them to be better than the alternative: getting apps (and manually updating them) from many different sources of varying quality and convenience.
Re: Google Play has been spreading advanced Android malware for years
#9Let this be another nail in the coffin of the "walled garden" farce. We learn this lesson again and again. People want someone to trust, but a bureaucracy isn't trustworthy. It has its own agenda and values inconsistent with yours. They take 30% from everybody whether they approve malware or not, and whether they reject legitimate apps or not. Trust doesn't come from size. If you want someone to vet your apps, it has…
But security is not binary. They (especially Apple) are doing something to limit the amount of fraudulent apps on their platform.
I would strongly prefer having a free-for-all platform because I have some basic knowledge of information security. Most people don't.
Re: Google Play has been spreading advanced Android malware for years
#10Let this be another nail in the coffin of the "walled garden" farce. We learn this lesson again and again. People want someone to trust, but a bureaucracy isn't trustworthy. It has its own agenda and values inconsistent with yours. They take 30% from everybody whether they approve malware or not, and whether they reject legitimate apps or not. Trust doesn't come from size. If you want someone to vet your apps, it has…
Google play != Apple App Store