I had to remove ES File Explorer because it's carrying malware

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Internet (and Usenet) old-timer Peter da Silva 1) seeking a featureful file manager for Android due to 2) malware inclusion of his current choice.

The problems of Android are another element of this. Despite a huge promise, Android consistently over-hypes and under-delivers on hardware, OS, security, privacy, and most especially, an overtly user-hostile application ecosystem.

Google need to think long and hard what they want Android to be, and how to make it that.

Google doesn't need to do anything. No matter how bad Android gets, you and the general public will lap it up. Where else are you going to go? More on topic I use the File Manager application that came with CyanogenMod. It seems pretty simple, I don't know if it meets your needs or is malware free. These days I assume everything on Android is some form of spyware or malware and so I don't keep any financial or similarly sensitive information on it.

Apple, Amazon, Ubuntu, and Mozilla are three alternatives to Google either presently or in the not too distant future (there's also Microsoft though they've got their own issues).

I don't know that any will succeed, but I suspect one or the other eventually will.

Android as it stands sucks. Badly.

I know. I'm typing this on it.

This just happened to me this morning! They've added a "lock screen override" with ads.

Proper interruptive & misleading model tricks you into turning it on ("you just plugged in your phone, enable rapid charger?")

Honestly I knew the very second AFTER I clicked a rapid OK that I'd probably done something wrong.

Wasn't too hard to fix, but man, is that ever scammy.

Wasn't hard to find out it was coming from ES file explorer.

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