Does it also block unwanted traffic from Google apps or does it have a particular hatred for companies that interfere with Google's business model?

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tgsovlerkhgsel 13 hours ago | parent [-]

Play Protect blocks malicious apps, not network traffic, so no, it obviously doesn't interfere with Google's apps.

AFAIK it also left SmartTube (an alternative YouTube client) alone until the developer got pwned and the app trojanized with this kind of SDK, and the clean versions are AFAIK again being left alone. No guarantee that it won't change in the future, of course, but so far they seem to not be abusing it.

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direwolf20 11 hours ago | parent [-]

Does malicious mean interfering with Google's business model, or does it include intrusive advertising?

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ThePowerOfFuet 5 hours ago | parent [-]

malicious ≠ intrusive.

	▲	direwolf20 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		but intrusive advertising is malicious