• OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe@lemmy.world
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      Essentially saying we’ll just ‘install’ piracy, as FitGirl is a major player in the piracy scene (as far as games go, no clue if they do other things).

      Unless I’m wrong and Fitgirl now has repacks for major android/iOS apps that can be utilized through an existing app interface.

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        And also it’s very probably a malicious app that does in fact not give you any pirated games.

        Probably adware at best. Wouldn’t doubt it also just sends you to non-play apk downloads of malware

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          13 hours ago

          The thumbnail says “unofficial” and malicious apps tend to try and trick you into thinking it’s official. So I’m not sure it’s malicious.

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            So them saying it’s unofficial makes you think it is more safe, since surely if it said official it’d be malicious?

            Sounds like putting unofficial there might just make even more people trust it then, good for a malicious app.

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        Not knowing that I assumed that Fitgirl was just some crappy gooner app that Google automatically promotes.

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      As others have said, Fitgirl is a major player in the games piracy scene. She doesn’t crack the games, but she does repack cracked games (compresses them in clever ways). It’s quite common for people to impersonate her or her site to try to fool people into downloading malware. This seems to be another one of those.

      She warns against this quite frequently. From her faq, for example:

      "Q: Do you have a Facebook page? A: I didn’t, don’t and won’t have a Facebook page. The same applies to Twitter, Instagram, whatever else. This site is the only official FitGirl Repacks source. If you happen to come here from “Facebook FitGirl Page” – you’ve been fooled by an imposter. "

      (Note: this comment is not an endorsement of games piracy, and this community is not the appropriate venue for discussions of that nature. Anyone interested should go to relevant communities like the ones hosted on the db0 Lemmy instance )