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- lealternative@feddit.it
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- lealternative@feddit.it
This REALLY sucks and I have like 10 of these apps on my phone right now because I get everything from F-Droid on my otherwise standard android phone.
F-Droid probably won’t accept any builds with adware/tracking in them, so probably we’ll just stay on an old version until a fork or alternative comes along. There’s also a toggle on my preferred F-Droid manager app (droid-ify) to ignore new versions
If it’s open source F-Droid will permit it but warns you of anti-features, at least on first install. I’m not expecting an update now but if they do I can see if F-Droid warns me about the spyware and adverts.
Well, the F-Droid team may in theory permit it, but it’s also the F-Droid team that has to actively build and distribute the new version. If they don’t feel like distributing a newer version, they can absolutely do that.
I went through and disabled auto updates for them (through fdroid) just in case.
Thank you
If I got a dollar every time the gallery app I like got sold to a shitty ad company, I would have two dollars. Which isn’t much, but fuck Cheetah Mobile and ZipoApps.
Jesus fucking Christ, there’s no such thing as a trustworthy android developer at this point
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Simpler forks
Shit. I used to use most of these apps when my life was more degoogled, but even now I like the gallery a hell of a lot more than other options I’ve found. Guess it’s an opportunity to see what else is out there.
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Sad to see them go, I use their apps every day. Probably they don’t really need any updates for a long time, hopefully an open source fork will emerge until then.
Installing from F-Droid prevents sales like this from causing silent “upgrades” to advertising-infested versions.
Great, I did get them from F-Droid.
Any good substites on FDroid? Specifically SMS and file manager?
QKSMS
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that sucks but glad there seems to be forks happening
Just disabled auto updates. Bookmarked the forked project to check out later.
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