Trying not to offend him, I told him that I greatly doubted these applications

Due to emergence of such apps, since most of us in Hive are somehow aware of what is going on and can determine what could possibly a scam or not I am doing the same to my friends especially the ones who are joining the hype.

Sad to say, when I rebuke them about the possible dangers of installing such apps they will only respond back that "there's nothing to lose when I downloaded it, it is just some information being provided" which is alarming as personal information and permissions to our devices is a big thing especially if it will be used to deceit others.

I was surprised that Google removed eight applications of these characteristics, although Trend Micro says that there are many more, there are even more than 200 that are still in the store, most of them are free, although there are also some that must be paid.

Not really sure on how it works, I think that Google needed some reports from the users before they take action to such applications. But hopefully, before they launch an app through their playstore someone from their team would review the app thoroughly to make sure that it is safe to be used. I have noticed a lot in the playstore whereas the ratings is at 1 star and feedbacks are in the negative but still the app is available for download.

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