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Re:Two-thirds of all Android antivirus apps are frauds by scarface74 on Saturday March 16, 2019 @04:57PM (#19410256)
They gain money for the author.
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Re:Two-thirds of all Android antivirus apps are frauds by uponcoffee on Saturday March 16, 2019 @06:12PM (#19410689)
This ^

If it's free it's probably making money from ads, or making money from your information. Or you paid for it and it's doing the above anyways. AV style apps can ask for a lot of permissions without raising as much as an eyebrow because they need them to 'protect' users, which puts them in a nice spot to data mine.

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