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Avoid downloading #android apps from F-Droid.

F-Droid is compromised and has censored apps for ideological reasons. They don't care about freedom or free speech. I'll write more on this topic later.

It's also not secure to get your apps from there, because all of them are signed by F-Droid – you’re adding a party you’ll have to trust, which isn’t ideal.

I only use F-Droid to find #FOSS apps that I would not have discovered otherwise. I recommend using Obtainium, which lets you install and update your apps directly from their source.

#privacy #cybersecurity #opsec

Late Night Blog 1y ago

I use both F-Droid and obtanium. Most of the drawbacks of F-Droid seem to be the same as any centralized repository so still use it.

Any examples on the censorship? You can add third party repos so it doesn't feel too locked down. But I may be missing details.

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Skipper 1y ago

I suggest you start with their statement.

https://f-droid.org/en/2019/07/16/statement.html

It's a classic case of the "woke mind virus" excuse to censor. The very same people who were advocating for software freedoms now "take a political stance" and ban social network clients from their platform because the network in question refuses to police its users.

https://reclaimthenet.org/f-droid-bans-gab-app

https://forum.f-droid.org/t/discouraged-by-f-droid-censorship/12017?page=2

They even starting censoring any discussions of the topic on their forum, and banning users because of it.

https://forum.f-droid.org/t/recent-events-on-the-forum/6724

There has also been a lot of drama recently surrounding their "board of directors", with members quitting or whatever.

https://web.archive.org/web/20231117190207/https://gitlab.com/fdroid/admin/-/issues/446

Why does an Android FOSS repository even have a board of directors and community councils in the first place? How has it even come to this?

As I mentioned in the main post, F-Droid is compromised. There are too many humans in charge of things, and when they censored apps for ideological reasons, they opened a pandora's box. They cannot be trusted. Don't trust me either, do your own research.