Lee Duna to TechnologyEnglish • 11 months agoWhy is Google allowed to remove purchases from our Play Store accounts without telling us?www.androidpolice.comexternal-linkmessage-square302fedilinkarrow-up1989arrow-down115cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-squareFlavoredButtHairlinkEnglish2•11 months agoActually there’s websites with archives of old apk files for apps.
minus-square@graymesslinkEnglish13•11 months agoKinda hard to just trust those sites not to hide malicious shit in there.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•11 months agoThat’s why Android apps must be signed. Tools can show an app’s certificate hash and if two app versions’ hashes match, they’re equally trustworthy / from the same source. I think APKMirror does this and it’s actually quite trusthworthy.
Actually there’s websites with archives of old apk files for apps.
Kinda hard to just trust those sites not to hide malicious shit in there.
That’s why Android apps must be signed. Tools can show an app’s certificate hash and if two app versions’ hashes match, they’re equally trustworthy / from the same source. I think APKMirror does this and it’s actually quite trusthworthy.
Google them and see which one is safe.