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Thing is, Play Store is already filled with malware or near-malware from seemingly verified developers. I ran into several scam clone apps just today. It's even snuck in through OEM apps.
Same on iOS, which supposedly verifies devs.
If 'verification' and curation is their idea of security, well... It appears their system is already overloaded, yet they want to expand it?
That was fundamentally F-Droid's retort.
It's absolutely insane that anyone pretends Google Play and the App Store are fine though.
Has anyone scrolled through any search and not seen a sea of heavily marketed scam apps?