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Why is Google allowed to remove purchases from our Play Store accounts without telling us? (www.androidpolice.com)
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[–] jbk@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 10 months ago

That's why Android apps must be signed. Tools can show an app's certificate hash and if two app versions' hashes match, they're equally trustworthy / from the same source. I think APKMirror does this and it's actually quite trusthworthy.