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Chat Apps (kbin.run)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I use the apps my friends use but it gets tiring to keep up with so many.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Hi, could you touch on why F-Droid is less safe? Is it because they package (I think that's the term?) stuff themselves?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Certainly.

To answer your question: yeah, pretty much.

I got all of this information, originally, through this guy's channel (Side Of Burritos on YouTube):

It's also worth mentioning that part three of that series ended up directly inspiring another project called Obtanium, which he then did a video on here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiN37bn0OE8

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

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