I know of all this - I uploaded one app to F-Droid some years ago. It took about a year to get it fixed and 2 to get a false positive anti-feature removed. Not

I know of all this - I uploaded one app to F-Droid some years ago. It took about a year to get it fixed and 2 to get a false positive anti-feature removed. Not a problem, I like the service and it's free/libre so I don't expect stuff to be fixed fast. > The Play Store review process doesn't do a thorough job of checking apps for privacy or security issues and doesn't require apps to disclose anything other than their permissions. This is wrong. Depending on what you use, more scrutiny is applied, eg an Android Auto extension has to be compliant with road safety guidelines as well, in order not to disctract the driver. The process is not 100% thorough, no, but nothing can be. App devs have to disclose quite a lot on the Play Store actually, it's only getting more: URL where to delete account, URL where to delete data, information on how data is used, tracked and shared. My main point was security: - No restrictions on permissions is definitely libre in a way, but not secure. - Afaik no codebase or runtime checks to make sure it's not malware etc.