Continuing the discussion from Accrescent isn't the future : [image] Accrescent isn't the future This is because maintaining and adding new entries to the database is too difficult. Would it be a good idea for us to maintain a list of AppVerifier verification strings on our website? I think…

In general, I support the idea How would we prevent bad actors from poisoning the database?

Relevant thread from GOS forum: [image] Let's compare hashes for apps not in AppVerifier's database! - GrapheneOS... GrapheneOS discussion forum

Same approval process as the rest of the site, so ideally some oversight from the team, and some process for other people to vouch for submissions too. I’m also thinking about having GitHub Actions automatically pull the app from F-Droid, Google Play, Accrescent, or online releases as applicable. I…

Basically like that, except one combined database we publish to privacyguides.org with some defined process, instead of having to search through individual submissions and decide which user to trust.

I love this idea! Would this be linked directly in the AppVerifier app, or something people can manually search? It would be useful if it stated which app version and download source since the key is sometimes different. Also, if it was searchable or sortable that would be helpful!

[image] dadnerd: since the key is sometimes different We’d have to list Google Play versions separately I’d imagine, yeah. [image] dadnerd: or something people can manually search Yeah. Absolutely would make it searchable and sortable though. Probably some “copy to clipboard” button …

[image] jonah: Would it be a good idea for us to maintain a list of AppVerifier verification strings on our website? I think the key here is that the list is maintained in the proper format. From this current issue/enhancement the dev is open to a feature that share the text which is just …

Agree, I just read that. I want to basically do a big YAML file with the data, which we can easily transform into a nice table on the website, or easily build a big plaintext list like that if some sort of mass import feature does get added to the app.

if you look at the other users fork it looks like they had the feature where the users could use their own database that could be imported and exported as a json which also seems pretty conveneint - especially for shared lists which I think was what their comment was getting at. but the SAF export…

I just like yaml since it is easier to read than json, but it directly converts to json. And a script to convert it to a txt file would be very simple, so anything that AppVerifier ends up supporting will be easy to do :+1: It’s been brought up that maybe we could simply release a fork with an expa…

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