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Seeing a lot of outdated apps being recommended, is that safe? (self.opensource)

submitted 1 year ago by borzthewolf to c/[email protected]

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I've come to realize that a lot of foss android apps are pretty outdated and usually abandoned. Is that even safe to use? Like even the fdroid archive repository, are those safe to use? I'm still rather new to the foss world, but in my mind it seems a very outdated app is probably not safe or am I missing something here?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Depends what the app does, like some others have mentioned if it's transferring sensitive data over the internet, I would want it to be updated. But if it's something local like a call blocker checking a local database I wouldn't worry about it.

The other downside for the call blocker app is the database could be outdated, not sure how their mechanism works for that.

[–] borzthewolf 1 points 1 year ago

Vep very true!