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TIL: You can use Obtainium as a complete f-droid client replacement

Obtainium just keeps surprising me. Yesterday through nostr:npub1tr4dstaptd2sp98h7hlysp8qle6mw7wmauhfkgz3rmxdd8ndprusnw2y5g I found out you can add f-droid apps (even from 3rd party repos) to Obtainium and even search for them!

I tried to migrate all my f-droid apps to it and managed to do it. I even uninstall the fdroid client I was using: droid-fy.

How do you check apk signatures via Obtainium?

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You don't, unfortunately.

That's why Obtainium is a bad option when it comes to security.

Using official repository of F-Droid you mitigate cyber risk.

That's not true. You are just trusting fdroid maintainers since they are the ones signing apks with their keys.

You're using a centralized curation service. Arguing that is more "secure" is very dubious.

If the original devs don't provide sigs, there's not much you can do.