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“Google Play Protect for off-Play apps is inherently less effective compared to Google Play protection.”

Google’s own head of security explained this to us a few days ago, but Qian is taking another stab — he says that because Google Play doesn’t have a “relationship” with off-Play apps, has less information, it isn’t as effective.

He says bad apps can use polymorphism to avoid detection by scan, making “every single version look different.”

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