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Google’s post recapping Play Store and Android protections in 2024 is live, while highlighting new Play Protect features, like during calls.
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Doesn’t play protect just keep you from installing malware? I have issues with Google the same as everyone else. That being said, I feel like it makes sense to protect old people from getting a call with step by step instructions to install malware. It seems to me that it would take a sufficiently advanced user to be justified in wanting to disable Play Protect. In that case, they’re advanced enough that they don’t need to receive instructions over the phone and can say “I’ll call you back after I finish this”
No, it doesn’t, or we wouldn’t have all the reports of malware on phones.
It simply isn’t possible for all those reports to be only from the tiny fraction of people who sideload.
Play protect has been around for what, ten years now, the play store has tons of malicious apps, yet people still get malware.
As a final thought, why is protection from malicious apps from the play store being performed on the phone instead of in the store?
why is protection from malicious apps from the play store being performed on the phone instead of in the store?
Because it’s behavior-based. You can’t tell how software will behave until you run it. And running it means having real human interactions with the software and the environment on your phone. It’s literally impossible to predict what software will do just by reading the code. It’s the Halting Problem. I’m no expert though, and I’m kind of assuming.
And I’m sure that some exploits are detected in the source code by the Play Store when they’re done naively and obiviously.
As a final thought, why is protection from malicious apps from the play store being performed on the phone instead of in the store?
In addition, why is known spyware on the top of the recommended list if I were to open the play store: temu, snapchat.
Or getting pissy if I use an ad blocker when their platform has served malicious ads.
I keep play protect off because it blocks some modded apks which makes sense, its similar to how on windows using most pirated software requires white listing the app in windows anti virus.
Step a side pedon, Sundar the creep gonna protect your device for you while you are doing that personal call with your partner.