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Also teach people to use and prefer F-Droid over Google Play when possible, and make your open source app available on it: - no obscure ban for application ven
by jraph 6y ago
Also teach people to use and prefer F-Droid over Google Play when possible, and make your open source app available on it:
- no obscure ban for application vendors
- no mandatory account for installing apps and from which you can be banned
- no user tracking
If you don't like vendor lock-ins and its consequences, push for the alternatives.
- cy_hauser 6y agoWould F-Droid have accepted them with an ad bundle included? I seem to remember that as an anti-feature for them.
- pferde 6y agoIt is an anti-feature, and they seem to only be allowing apps with ads implemented using free software: https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Anti-Features/#Ads https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Anti-Features/#Ads
- matkoniecz 6y agoIs it feasible for anyone attempting to make an app paid in some form? Would they accept any form of ads or requiring login into a paid account? Note that F-Droid often has build issues, with app version on F-Droid lagging months behind actually released version.
- jraph 6y agoRequiring a paid login is certainly fine as long as the client application is entirely free software. Ads are probably fine if they are shown using free software but will be marked as an anti-feature. Same for tracking. In app payment is probably fine too, and will not be subject to a 30% fee or something.
- bambax 6y agoMaybe. How many users are on F-Droid though? I think the alternative is a simple web app. For many many apps it would work just fine. If it works in a browser on a PC, it really should work on a browser on a phone.
- jraph 6y ago> How many users are on F-Droid though? Few, but this might be a chicken-and-egg problem, if we want to have more power and get rid of the Play Store governance, this might be worth a try.