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Re:Fortnite Boycotts Google Play Store; Teaches Kids to Side... by ocdtrekkie on Saturday August 04, 2018 @12:07AM (#17685331)
There is no security benefit to Google's scare tactics of calling other companies "untrusted sources". Both because Google scans apps installed from untrusted sources on your phone anyways, and because Google's malware scanning is literally industry-worst: https://www.av-test.org/en/antivirus/mobile-devices/

Imagine if Microsoft made you enable "untrusted sources" to install Steam on a PC.

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Re:Fortnite Boycotts Google Play Store; Teaches Kids to Side... by VikingCoder on Monday August 06, 2018 @12:18PM (#17698968)
Google scans apps before they are listed in the Play Store.

That's why scanning on the device is such a wasteland of awful.

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