Why were there trackers initially?
this post was submitted on 20 Mar 2024
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It's normal to track crashes and utilization to make software better, I don't think they tracked to sell data for advertising in bitwarden case
And Google Firebase is what non-degoogled Android uses for notifications
Even more, I think it's basically the only way. Lichess app got removed from vanilla F-Droid because of that.
It was actually a mistake. They were removed years ago specifically for the fdroid builds, but were reintroduced at some point on accident. Annoying mistake for sure
If the app is hosted at its own F-Droid repository, devs can add whatever they want. I wouldn't be surprised if that build is the exact same one as the Play Store one.
Nevertheless, good step for users! I wonder how devs will get crash reports and such stuff now, though...
That's great news indeed!
Now if they could consider implementing some sort of sorting and more advanced filtering that would be a huge plus, along with dupe control
Just checked F-Droid and nothing popped up. Is it coming this way? Great if it does!
Do you have their self-hosted fdroid repository installed?
Having a repo doesn't mean its on F-droid. I mean it does but using there repo forfeits the F-droid protections
My F-Droid download keeps failing the hash check.
It does that sometimes. Try clearing the download are starting over