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>>kotaKa+(OP)
If this is a thing then the solution they offer is incorrect. A big giant red screen: “warning the identity of this application developer has not been verified and this could be an application stealing your data, etc” would have worked.

What they want is to get rid of apps like YouTube Vanced that are making them lose money (and other Play Store apps)

>>rvnx+Ig1
It won't work because of too many false positives. People are already trained to ignore warnings, like how they blindly accept T&C without reading.

>>paradi+on1
If a giant red warning saying 'THIS APP MAY BE MALWARE' doesn't stop someone, then they've either made an informed choice to proceed or it's willful negligence. In other words, users aren't 'trained' to ignore warnings; they're simply being willfully negligent.

>>artisi+gy1
It’s because on the other side of that warning is a cracked version of Spotify that removes the adverts.

The user can’t make an informed choice because it’s literally impossible to audit the safety of the app or the author. So they will click passed any warnings, follow any number of steps to install the app that gives them something desirable for free.

>>Gigach+4I1
So what?

Those same users can now install facebook, and facebook does this: https://medium.com/@ak123aryan/facebooks-hidden-android-trac...

And facebook is and will be verified in the future too.