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I'm not saying it's legal or anything of the sort. It's probably some kind of fraud or copyright infringement, but it's not theft.
Accessing a paid service by taking the API key out of another app without the consent of the service provider would be theft of services. In most US states theft of services falls under the same law as theft of personal property.
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I also heavily heavily hate the idea that they sign everything, the app stores must not be trusted. They should only be signing over packages already reproducibly compiled.
Why? Isn't that how signatures of any Linux distro work too? The packager signs the package not the developer.
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I also heavily heavily hate the idea that they sign everything, the app stores must not be trusted. They should only be signing over packages already reproducibly compiled.
What are you expecting them to do, not host non-reproducible builds at all? Android will not run unsigned apps. This would result in F-Droid having exactly 3 apps. They're working on getting more reproducible builds but the build system is not exactly great for it.
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Here is a solution for this problem: let's devalue mobile advertisements. How? Simple: every time you see an ad, add the product advertised to a blacklist. Refuse to download any app that advertises to you. I've been doing this for a few years, and have felt no negative effects; in fact I have way less app clutter on my phone, and I still find all of the apps that I look for. Advertising has changed in nature; it use…
I appreciate the vigour, but it's probably easier to just use an ad blocker: https://f-droid.org/app/org.blokada.alarm
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I should have been more specific but my app needs to record GPS with the screen off and with the app not focused which web apps can't do.
I guess your app is Android only - I can't imagine this working well on any iOS device, regardless of being a native app.
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Did you ask why those companies (Cheetah mobile, Du group,...) which caught red-handed still allow to distribute apps in Google Play store?
I did. I also asked the same Q when I helped catch Cheetah Mobile and Kika Tech doing ad fraud: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/android-... And when I busted a large ad fraud scheme of dozens of apps: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/how-a-ma... In all cases Google basically said it takes action against specific apps found violating policy. It seems unwilling to take action agai…
Yet, those apps are being ranked higher than other honest apps, which are doing business in honest way.
These day, Google is not willing to do the right thing, unless being pressured by press media, or EU.
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I guess your app is Android only - I can't imagine this working well on any iOS device, regardless of being a native app.
Hm, I'm not sure how iOS apps do it. My app is a fitness app that records activities, the app has to remain running in the background so the recording isn't interrupted.
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What are you expecting them to do, not host non-reproducible builds at all? Android will not run unsigned apps. This would result in F-Droid having exactly 3 apps. They're working on getting more reproducible builds but the build system is not exactly great for it.
> What are you expecting them to do, not host non-reproducible builds at all? Yes.