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Everyone knows all the apps on your phone

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1192 points gniting | 2 comments | 29 Mar 25 21:26 UTC | HN request time: 0.608s | source
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dTal ◴[29 Mar 25 23:46 UTC] No.43519791[source]▶
Another fantastic reason to strictly only install apps from F-Droid.
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JohnFen ◴[30 Mar 25 00:22 UTC] No.43519959[source]▶
How does that address the problem? Does F-Droid do some sort of additional screening to keep out apps that do this?
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1. marcodiego ◴[30 Mar 25 00:35 UTC] No.43520038[source]▶
First, f-droid only accepts OSS apps, so the incentives for spyware is simply not there. Second, anti-features are explicitly marked on f-droid. Third, f-droid apps are curated like a very rigorous linux repo.
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2. JohnFen ◴[30 Mar 25 01:01 UTC] No.43520208[source]▶
Being an OSS app is not sufficient protection. Most OSS apps aren't terribly misbehaved, but some are. Being OSS in and of itself is not anything like a guarantee with this sort of thing.

> Third, f-droid apps are curated like a very rigorous linux repo.

Yes, I know. My question is is this one of the things they're screening for?

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