> So there is a (IMHO) shady market out there that gives app developers on iOS, Android, MacOS and Windows money for including a library into their apps that sells users network bandwidth
AKA "why do Cloudflare and Google make me fill out these CAPTCHAs all day"
I don't know why Play Protect/MS Defender/whatever Apple has for antivirus don't classify apps that embed such malware as such. It's ridiculous that this is allowed to go on when detection is so easy. I don't know a more obvious example of a trojan than an SDK library making a user's device part of a botnet.
AKA "why do Cloudflare and Google make me fill out these CAPTCHAs all day"
I don't know why Play Protect/MS Defender/whatever Apple has for antivirus don't classify apps that embed such malware as such. It's ridiculous that this is allowed to go on when detection is so easy. I don't know a more obvious example of a trojan than an SDK library making a user's device part of a botnet.