What you need to know about the dangerous Android banking trojan that's been ported to iPhone
  • conciselyverbose@kbin.social
    41·
    1 year ago

    Because Google already lets apps do anything they want no matter how malicious. There’s no reason to leave the Play Store.

    Apple has people sneak past their rules on occasion because screening is hard, but they have and enforce rules that protect your privacy that malware companies like Facebook don’t want to follow.

      • conciselyverbose@kbin.social
        31·
        1 year ago

        I’m not talking about permissions.

        I’m talking about their store policies. Google is far more permissive about malicious behavior than Apple is. Companies that have no reason to bypass the play store because it already allows them to spy to an obscene degree will bypass the App Store when given the opportunity, because it does not.