Yeah this is what passes for tech journalism nowadays

It’s actually an incredibly common way that they are infected, especially in places where WhatsApp is the default communication platform

I feel like you don’t really know anything about the scam community, but a side loaded app is like 500 times more likely to be malware than a Play store app. The amount of millions that have been stolen from users in India, Mexico, Africa, and Brazil because of sideloaded apps is pretty staggering.

I’m fairly certain fdroid should just be able to alter the way that they’re doing things a bit and still exist under the need to obtain a signing cert from Google.

I mean personally I’m not on the same side with this. I would rather Google not do this without some way to disable it via the UI given enough warnings and what not.