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>There's no way this is really about scammers. I have never heard of scammers pushing sideloaded apps upon their victims in order to carry out their scams.

I also never got targeted by pig butchering scams[1], and neither did my immediate friends/family, so I guess those must not exist either?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_butchering_scam

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You don’t need malicious apps for this, it’s common to use real crypto exchanges and get them to send you money. How does google’s approach solve that?

And here are apps straight from the App Store [0] that are outright scams. How dos this protect people from these?

[0]: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/pig-b...

I didn't say the scams don't exist. I am of course aware of these types of scams.

But again, I've never heard of sideloading being used as an attack vector here. Nor have I ever seen reporting on it.

I figure Krebs or somebody would have written about this if it was an issue.

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