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Re:I was blackmailed – any YouTuber could be next by paulmd on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @09:39PM (#23318536)
> Consider what it would cost to manually vet all apps on Play against even the most uncontroversial malware and data abuse policy

I believe this is precisely what Apple does, is it not? So perhaps not as impossible as you're casting it to be.

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Re:I was blackmailed – any YouTuber could be next by UncleMeat on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @09:51PM (#23318594)
It isn't. You can't possibly manually review every new version of every app in detail.
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Re:I was blackmailed – any YouTuber could be next by Dylan16807 on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @10:22PM (#23318761)
You can do it for every app with a hundred thousand installs, though. And they could manually review support tickets from youtube partner channels of similar size.

They can't vet everything, but the bare minimum of what they should be vetting is a lot closer to apple levels than their current levels.

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