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  1. Wow – pure SnakeOil, those so-called anti-virus or anti-malware scanners! "we are unable to proceed with the whitelisting request unless the application is available on the Google Play Store"?!? WTF?!? 🤯

    And yes, that's part of a real response a dev got.

    So they claim: your app is malware, as long as it is not at Google Play. I'd say we've heard it the other way around, too…

    #SnakeOil #AntiVirus #MalwareScanner #falsePositive #Google

  2. In nature it’s quite encouraging when you get a parasite that parasitises a different parasite - it shows your ecosystem is becoming more complex.

    Aside from the schadenfreude seeing a known snake oil scammer get parasitised by other scammers this ecosystem complexity is not nearly so good…

    #ai #scammer #antivaxxer #arseholes #australia #snakeoil theguardian.com/australia-news