As noted by Google, the machine learning technology used is responsible for finding 60.3 - percent of the potentially
harmful apps which have already been discovered, and Google things that number is guaranteed to keep going up.
Not exact matches
A useful website is ewg.org and their
app Skin Deep,
which indicates the toxicity level, effect on the body and potential for
harmful additives found in your primary cosmetic and cleaning products.
My husband and I used to stand in front of the shelves for ages, racking our brains while reading labels, trying to decipher the cryptic ingredients lists and using
apps to scan the bar codes to see
which product contained the least amount of
harmful substances.
According to the report, as many as a whopping 60.3 percent of potentially
harmful apps, or PHAs, were detected through machine learning in Google Play Protect,
which is a service that's enabled on any phone running Android 4.3 or later.
Additionally, the proliferation of Instant
Apps —
which can be used without downloading anything — keeps limits the likelihood of installing
harmful code on your device.
Google Play Protect was launch in 2017 as well,
which has helped to reduce installation of such
harmful apps by over 50 per cent claims the company.
Android
apps can get slightly elevated permissions by requesting «Device administrator» access,
which is helpful for certain tweaks like ad - blockers, but can be seriously
harmful in some cases.
Play Protect is aided by Google's machine learning,
which is trained to look for
harmful apps based on scans of 50 billion
apps each day.
As long as the
app requested high - level permissions (
which users often don't even check before installing), the
app could then exploit the vulnerability and install whatever kind of
harmful apps it wanted on the system.
On the
app you can scan or search many common household products to find out the chemicals and ingredients used, learn
which chemicals are potentially
harmful to you and why (a 1 - 10 overall «dirty rating» is given, ten is the worst, broken into three categories, carcinogenicity, developmental & reproductive toxicity and allergies & immunotoxicities), and there are links to research articles and findings that support the rating.