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I factory reset my (old) Android phone a while ago and now use it without a connection to Google Play. The only app I installed is Firefox, from an APK file. Works for me, although I rarely use a phone anyway. It's also nice not getting the constant upgrades of apps that came with the phone but which I don't use.
a manually updated web browser... what could possibly go wrong?
This is exactly what I was looking for.
edit : I used this for reference https://gist.github.com/ramann/62abe0b266bb8c3e8483c7c7ca60f...
Your increased trust in these stores is motivated by .... what governance and audit structure? yes, its a devils-advocate position. You might (for instance) have high trust because you know them from hacker traeff you've been on, f2f. I can't have this a-priori knowledge. From here, this looks no better than "trust google" and in some dimensions looks significantly worse. Of course for the primary goal of "distrust g…
One gains knowledge, not trust, from studying governance and audit structures.
> From here, this looks no better than "trust google" and in some dimensions looks significantly worse.
In what concrete way(s)?
For who ever is interested.... I live in China and have lived in a "google free" microcosm for some time forced on me by the government. Generally do not miss anything at all - at least I dont miss anything i dont know about. FTR i dont game or media watch on my phone. For me a phone is a mobile device for getting things done when im not at my desk. I use a Blackberry DTEK60. The apps I use: APKpure for getting apps…
I factory reset my (old) Android phone a while ago and now use it without a connection to Google Play. The only app I installed is Firefox, from an APK file. Works for me, although I rarely use a phone anyway. It's also nice not getting the constant upgrades of apps that came with the phone but which I don't use.
>The only app I installed is Firefox, from an APK file a manually updated web browser... what could possibly go wrong?
I think one of the things I'd really miss is Google Maps. The directions are really good, and the web app is unusably slow
I think one of the things I'd really miss is Google Maps. The directions are really good, and the web app is unusably slow
Your increased trust in these stores is motivated by .... what governance and audit structure? yes, its a devils-advocate position. You might (for instance) have high trust because you know them from hacker traeff you've been on, f2f. I can't have this a-priori knowledge. From here, this looks no better than "trust google" and in some dimensions looks significantly worse. Of course for the primary goal of "distrust g…
F-Droid is attempting to support reproducible builds--if you have a Debian system, you should be able to re-build the same .apk, or at least a similar enough .apk that the original package signature still passes. That said, by my quick count, only about 18% of the F-Droid packages are reproducible right now. nokogiri https://verification.f-droid.org/ -e '$_.css("a").each{|a|puts a.text}'|sed -n 's/\.txt$//p'|sed 's/.…