F-Droid really needs to be reconsidered, so I opened this topic for discussion.

If PG team somehow decides to not recommend F-Droid then atleast remove Neo Store recommendation and advice to use one of their official clients.

[image] anon63378630: Does Obtainium even actually verify F-Droid repo metadata before it goes and downloads apps? Oh, just a basic scraper from the API for available versions? Great, by recommending it it ends up putting users in a worse situation. Didn’t knew that, like I stated above.

[image] anon63378630: This flagrant anti-fdroid sentiment has repeatedly been directly detrimental to the users more than the actual issues are. That’s true. Everyone just took that article about F-Droid’s issues without any critical thinking. I mean, even PG stopped recommending F-Droid. I w…

I believe both obtainium and fdroid will be better options than RSS Feeds since it’s immensely inconvenient. I don’t think that an average user including me will bother to follow feeds and compare signatures. For obtainium, I was not really aware of the lack of signature checks. This should be an…

The top recommendation of PG is the Aurora Store, which is unreliable and clunky, and at the end of the day, apps are coming from Google, and Google could pull the plug at any moment. Another option is RSS feeds, which are worse than Obtainium and F-Droid, and if you go to RSS feed recommendations …

Signature checks are handled by the OS. But please keep the discussion on obtainium out ot this thread. Let’s keep this on topic.

Well yeah I do not use F-droid at all. Not via obtainium either. Maybe that’s why you do not understand me. I do not think fdroid is doing bad. I just don’t see any point in including them in the chain of trust. I get applications from the developers of the services I use like signal, proton etc. T…

[image] ph00lt0: Well yeah I do not use F-droid at all. Not via obtainium either. Maybe that’s why you do not understand me. [image] ph00lt0: I just don’t see any point in including them in the chain of trust. I get applications from the developers of the services I use like signal, proto…

[image] ph00lt0: There is no need for some middleman that should be trusted with the reputation of those vendors nor my endpoint security. Malware in an app that you got from F-Droid? Check the source code. If source code is clean then F-Droid team did it. As easy as that. Developers can also…

Does PG team have any thoughts on this?

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jonah (Jonah Aragon) April 16, 2024, 8:57am 33

As I said elsewhere, we don’t explicitly recommend against F-Droid anymore.

We do recommend F-Droid Basic over F-Droid though, is there a reason you’d prefer the traditional client over that one?

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