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Google Play does not have a "malware infestation". I have never once downloaded any malware, lookout has never detected any malware on my phone and I've never known anyone who has downloaded malware from Google Play. Anecdotal for sure, but given you said "infestation" you'd think I'd be crazy to download anything at all from Google Play. Absolute nonsense.

>>VeilEm+(OP)
Actually, based in the stats I've seen in the past (I can go hunting for them if needed), you would be crazy to download "anything at all" from the Play store, in the sense that the probability of a randomly-selected app harboring malware or privacy-invading practices is much higher than in the Apple App Store. But this is also like saying that you'd be insane to follow a random URL from your inbox; any random link is probably a phishing site or spam Viagra store, but you are unlikely to select one of those URLs by intent. Likewise, the vast majority of dangerous Android apps aren't ever going to appear on your radar, but that doesn't mean they aren't out there, just that they're poorly-targeted. (The Windows store, by contrast, was at one point full of questionable apps impersonating major brands, which is a much more obvious threat model.)

>>VeilEm+(OP)
Indeed. This is so overblown it is pathetic.

Edit: I wonder what smut the down voters have been downloading that may have given them the malwares. Reputable apps are fine. And there's no infestation. Just stahp.

>>JustSo+s1
Malware-containing apps have millions of downloads, and there are/were thousands of them. One might argue if that is an "infestation", given the much larger number of apps in the store, but it also isn't something that has only happened once or twice.

And when it comes to e.g. games there isn't much of reputation information outside a very small set of hits. No need to download "smut".

>>VeilEm+(OP)
It doesn't have a "malware infestation" problem, but rather a "arbitrary suspend/ban" problem.

>>VeilEm+(OP)
> Google Play does not have a "malware infestation". I have never once downloaded any malware, lookout has never detected any malware on my phone and I've never known anyone who has downloaded malware from Google Play.

Seriously, what is the point of saying that? There are lots of articles about the problem, but you stick to your own experiences then!