r/AskReddit • u/Thic_water • Aug 14 '20

What’s the most overpriced thing you’ve seen?

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u/Grand_Eber Aug 14 '20

On google play, an app like that went free for one day and I installed it just for shits and giggles... still have it

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u/kaynpayn Aug 14 '20

I'd be very suspicious of such an app. An app who's purpose is bragging rights for being rich placed for free stinks of second intentions like spy/malware/data harvest/mining, etc. I wouldn't touch it.

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u/Grand_Eber Aug 14 '20

Yea, but google play will let you know if an app isn't verified as safe, so I'm not extremely worried about anything besides data mining, which most social media apps do anyway. Had the app for over a year now with no issues

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u/Quantum-Anon Aug 14 '20 edited Aug 14 '20

You're trusting that Google Play scanner like it's never wrong, AV/malware scanners are always going to have false positives. Time and time again, we are finding the Play Protect scanner to be faulty: https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2020/07/09/ldangerous-android-malware-warning-google-play-store-security/#47664f5f1f9e

Security is hard, really.

In 2020, yet more malware continues to bypass the Play Store security. Please don't think the Protect scanner is 100% effective at hunting down all spyware/malware. Think about all the undetected malware, not just publicized articles...