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They've been to court, which presumably means they're publicly accountable, as opposed to pirates who tend to operate anonymously. I suppose you could send the
by Benjamin_Dobell 8y ago
They've been to court, which presumably means they're publicly accountable, as opposed to pirates who tend to operate anonymously.
I suppose you could send them an Electronic Commerce Directive take-down notice. Probably doesn't hurt them as such, but should get your app removed.
EDIT: The store seems to be somewhat decentralized, with stores being similar to APT repositories. So it may be difficult to target Aptoide directly unless there's a centralized list of stores, in which case I imagine you can get the user's store struck from it. Otherwise you may need to contact the store's hosting provider - which indeed could be a bit of a cat and mouse game.
- ce4 8y agoAnd now where is exactly the difference to F-Droid? The FOSS store f-droid also allows to add custom apt-like repositories, which for example CopperheadOS used to add a non-sanctioned patched version of the "signal" app. Moxie doesnt want forks of signal that are also using signal's servers. CopperheadOS did it anyway because signal is not compatible without Google Apps installed (removing google cloud messaging because CopperHeadOS doesnt include Google play services).
- wedlled 8y agoAs per their 'About page' no difference: "The original F-Droid client app was based on the Aptoide app developed by Roberto Jacinto." F-Droid is a fork of the original Aptoide project, it seems.
- ptx 8y agoIt was forked in 2010, so the the differences after 8 years of separate development are probably quite significant. (But both clients let you add third-party repositories, so in that regard there is no difference.)
- Markoff 8y agosignal work just fine without gapps, i am using it on my phone without gapps