Comment by garciansmith
6 days ago
Why would you take them at face value? Just look at the Play Store yourself. I've seen plenty of privacy-invading (and worse!) apps on the Play Store, even when (especially when!) searching for a specific app I know is legit and good.
Meanwhile I can download anything with confidence on F-Droid, the subject of the article.
Never forget that Apple's "premium" curation still allowed a fake third party Lastpass (!!!) application onto the store for several days: https://blog.lastpass.com/posts/warning-fraudulent-app-imper...
The whole "third parties are scary" shtick really does demand evidence.