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minus-squarebruh@nord.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·3 hours agoI was wondering cant we just scrape Play Store and distribute the apks on a different website? most apks has checksums so we will know nobody has changes the apk
minus-squareGoodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·18 minutes agoThat’s what a few sites like apkpure do…
minus-squarevas@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up5·3 hours ago and distribute the apks on a different website Or with distributed technologoes such as torrents. Then it’s cheaper to operate any required servers.
minus-squareleduvisc00l@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 hours agoAnd also if a server goes down there are still dozens of seeders ready to seed you the files
I was wondering cant we just scrape Play Store and distribute the apks on a different website? most apks has checksums so we will know nobody has changes the apk
That’s what a few sites like apkpure do…
Or with distributed technologoes such as torrents. Then it’s cheaper to operate any required servers.
And also if a server goes down there are still dozens of seeders ready to seed you the files
That’s insecure