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Re:Google Play has been spreading advanced Android malware f... by _bxg1 on Thursday April 30, 2020 @10:24AM (#23031094)
And yet Apple's walled garden is stronger and hasn't had anywhere near the malware problem that Google's has? I don't understand your point.

Privacy is where these companies' interests might not be aligned with users; when it comes to security, they very much are. It's just that for Google that's limited to their own services; they don't care so much when it comes to Android as a broader platform. But even then their interests are not not aligned with users. Just under-incentivized.

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Re:Google Play has been spreading advanced Android malware f... by UncleMeat on Thursday April 30, 2020 @11:13AM (#23031701)
This used to be true. But both Google and Apple release badware numbers and independent analysts do as well. Badware rates are similar on both stores and have been for several years. Play used to be considerably worse than the Apple store, but that is no longer the case.

Being late to take security seriously has harmed google though, since this idea is now out there in the wild and keeps getting repeated regardless of the current evidence.

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Re:Google Play has been spreading advanced Android malware f... by Lammy on Thursday April 30, 2020 @02:47PM (#23034552)
Of badware they know about. The linked article shows that isn't exactly a useful metric.
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Re:Google Play has been spreading advanced Android malware f... by UncleMeat on Thursday April 30, 2020 @05:19PM (#23036263)
Of course it is of badware they know about. This is why 3rd party analyst reports are useful, since you get a second datapoint. This same issue is present for iOS too, so I don't see why it should lead us to believe that Play is worse.
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Re:Google Play has been spreading advanced Android malware f... by enjoyyourlife on Thursday April 30, 2020 @04:53PM (#23035980)
What about Facebook's API? It is basically at the same level of malware as the apps mentioned in the article
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