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[return to "Everyone knows all the apps on your phone"]
1. dTal+Ve[view] [source] 2025-03-29 23:46:46
>>gnitin+(OP)
Another fantastic reason to strictly only install apps from F-Droid.
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2. JohnFe+Dh[view] [source] 2025-03-30 00:22:24
>>dTal+Ve
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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3. dander+Kj[view] [source] 2025-03-30 00:44:50
>>JohnFe+Dh
packages on f-droid list all required permissions explicitly, and the mentioned permission seems to be listed as "query all packages: Allows an app to see all installed packages.". It doesn't mark the app as having "anti-features", but you can at least make a more informed decision this way.
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4. duskwu+vB[view] [source] 2025-03-30 03:55:17
>>dander+Kj
> It doesn't mark the app as having "anti-features"

I suppose they must be too busy ticking off "anti-features" like "can communicate with non-Free services" to notice that sort of thing.

(No, really. F-Droid will tag applications like a Mastodon client as having "anti-feature: Non-Free Network Services", presumably because it can be configured to connect to servers running non-free software?)

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