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> There is nothing wrong with the play store per se in this context other than it not being FOSS. Well, the store itself isn't free-software. But the software
by southerntofu 7y ago
> There is nothing wrong with the play store per se in this context other than it not being FOSS.
Well, the store itself isn't free-software. But the software it distributes also isn't free software and is many times crapware/malware, without any human review. F-Droid has "AntiFeatures" tags on applications, and while these could be better, they're already more informational for end-users than blindly downloading/running programs : https://f-droid.org/wiki/page/Antifeatures https://f-droid.org/wiki/page/Antifeatures
Then, there's also the problem that Google Play Store relies on Google Play Services. So if you don't want to install Google's universal backdoor on your phone (which Google used last year to push silent config updates on some phones, wtf?) you can't use that. Or you have to use F-Droid to setup a Play Store scrapper such as Yalp or Aurora.