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Why is Google allowed to remove purchases from our Play Store accounts without telling us? (www.androidpolice.com)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Actually there's websites with archives of old apk files for apps.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Kinda hard to just trust those sites not to hide malicious shit in there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

That's why Android apps must be signed. Tools can show an app's certificate hash and if two app versions' hashes match, they're equally trustworthy / from the same source. I think APKMirror does this and it's actually quite trusthworthy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Google them and see which one is safe.