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F-Droid and the Future of Open-Source Android; An Interview with DocWolle (gardinerbryant.com)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 48 points 4 months ago

anything in particular you want to say to the people reading our interview?

I encourage everyone to visit keepandroidopen.org to understand what’s at stake with Android’s future, and I warmly invite users to explore my projects on F-Droid. If you value privacy, transparency, and true software freedom, I hope you’ll find something useful in my work.

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    [–] 21 points 4 months ago

    I like F-Droid. Started using Bura for weather and it's nice having a weather app that's not trying to track your location.

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    [–] 3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Enjoy our work? Join the thousands of folks who've signed up for our newsletter (and get exclusive perks)!

    You value privacy, yet you put exclusive content behind a newsletter. 🤔

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I don't mind this type of offer to keep a website from disappearing behind a paywall like the rest of the internet is doing right now. The only critisism I'd have is the wording. There is nothing "exiting" in these newsletters. It's just marketing.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    The newsletter is what it says on the tin: a recap of the articles we posted this week. Plus, a recap of our analytic, updates I made to the site's UX, and content I posted elsewhere. Is that marketing? I find my work very "exiting" 😉

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    1. I don't see how this is a violation of privacy. If you're a privacy advocate you are very likely going to have a service like Proton that let's you create throwaway email addresses.

    2. I value keeping our content out of the hands of AI training data. Gates like that help prevent scrapers from stealing our content.

    3. I'd say more than half our content is 100% free with no subscription wall anyway.

    If you don't like it, don't sign up for it. But dont pretend that it's a violation of your privacy. It's not. Lol

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    [–] 13 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I respect what he's doing, but KeepAndroidOpen should be a campaign for the EU to fund Linux Phones. Seriously, relying on the good will of a US company is a terrible strategy.

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  • [+] -6 points 4 months ago

    Where apps aren't rated by users (so they can be warned of crap), where apps go abandoned and users aren't notified, and where apps aren't even curated. -All security issues. I hate Google more than anyone else, but making using crap like that more difficult is for their own good.

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    • [–] 8 points 4 months ago

    If all else fails, there's always mobile Linux...

    ... ... ...

    Yeah... 🙃

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