alt Hacker NewsIt all depends on how you define malware. If malware is software doing something that is contrary to the user's interests, then for many users it is indeed malware.
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charcircuit • today at 7:58 AM
>this malevolent process has exactly one goal: to block you from running software by developers who haven’t been approved centrally by Google.
This claim is made by FDroid with no evidence. They make this scary claim which goes against everything Google has claimed so far. They are a biased party, and I can't trust their opinion. I would appreciate if they shared a more in depth investigation or a way to verify there big claim.
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Too much hedging in this comment.
Malware is something that maliciously breaks your computer.
This maliciously breaks my computer so it's malware. There's no difference between this and the ILOVEYOU virus, except the delivery mechanism.