“Keeping users safe on Android is our top priority,” Android president Sameer Samat wrote on X. “Scammers rely on anonymity to scale their attacks. Right now, if we block a bad app, they can often just create a new app and try again. Verification stops this “whack-a-mole” cycle by requiring a real identity – making it much harder and costlier to repeatedly distribute harmful apps.
So, you’re actually going to put an effort in stopping people from publishing malware through the Play Store, right?
Good summary right there. Clean up your own house before you start preaching under the guise of user safety, fools.
So far the only “cleanup” I’ve seen in the Play Store is removing old apps that haven’t been updated in a while but still run just fine, which means things like a physical Bluetooth air quality sensor I have needs the APK sideloaded now. Totally fighting scammers, Google. Totally.
Wouldn’t it be great if these tech companies just dropped the verbal diarrhea filter and just spoke plainly?
“We’re doing this to try and increase revenue by making ourselves a walled garden like Apple, because there isn’t really competition anymore, we’re greedy, and we lost the plot,” is what they should be saying.
So, you’re actually going to put an effort in stopping people from publishing malware through the Play Store, right?
Right?
Good summary right there. Clean up your own house before you start preaching under the guise of user safety, fools.
So far the only “cleanup” I’ve seen in the Play Store is removing old apps that haven’t been updated in a while but still run just fine, which means things like a physical Bluetooth air quality sensor I have needs the APK sideloaded now. Totally fighting scammers, Google. Totally.
Wouldn’t it be great if these tech companies just dropped the verbal diarrhea filter and just spoke plainly?
“We’re doing this to try and increase revenue by making ourselves a walled garden like Apple, because there isn’t really competition anymore, we’re greedy, and we lost the plot,” is what they should be saying.
worse… they’ll happily sell ad space to any scammer