I don’t like that, if I am going through the play store, I only want things that have gone through googles vetting process, flawed though it may be.
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petrescatraian@libranet.de 5 months agoI think this means allowing the listing of third party app stores inside the Google Play Store - so you could search for F-Droid in Google Play for example instead of downloading and installing the
.apk manually.NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth 5 months ago
maynarkh@feddit.nl 5 months ago
F-Droid could go through it, the thing that is prohibited is for Google to bar them just because they are a competitor.
TWeaK@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Downloading F-Droid from Google Play kind of defeats the purpose of F-Droid.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
You can still verify the install even if it went through the play store no? Or are apps on the playstore not signed by the developer?
TWeaK@lemm.ee 5 months ago
You’re still putting a measure of trust into Google with that, rather than just trusting F-Droid.
barsoap@lemm.ee 5 months ago
You’re still putting complete trust into Google by using any android that isn’t thoroughly de-googled, built from scratch, and installed on a jailbroken phone. They’re integrated on the OS level they can do whatever they want.