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I don’t want a nanny company.

But I also want a trustworthy place to get apps….




Here you go:

https://f-droid.org/

Only works on Android though because Apple deems this type of non-Apple store a threat to their profits. Fortunately there are plenty of Android devices to be had on the market which can run a free AOSP-derived distribution like LineageOS. You'll get OTA updates until the cows come home or the developers move to another device, whichever comes first. The Galaxy SIII I'm using as a "dangerous work" phone - its screen got cracked when it fell of the barn roof for the second time while I was installing solar panels but it still works fine - still gets updates, it currently runs Android 11.


Yeah, like maybe we can get it directly from the source like we do it on Windows/Linux/MacOS already


I really don’t want to have to think about every phone app source.

The spyware game on mobile is different than laptop or desktops.


Spyware is much much less powerful on mobile than desktop. If you install malware on a desktop you are boned even without some OS exploit. On mobile there's still a lot an app can do, but it is far more constrained without some OS exploit.




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