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> Everything there is mostly out to exploit me, or a direct security liability regardless of what app store. As a shining bright light of hope, I will list som

> Everything there is mostly out to exploit me, or a direct security liability regardless of what app store. As a shining bright light of hope, I will list some apps I have installed which do not appear to me to fall into those buckets. 1. Anki - Flash cards app, I can memorize stuff. It's really good. 2. KDE Connect - Zero exploitation, open source, even sorta works 3. Peakfinder - So far this app has seemed okay. "I programmed PeakFinder during the day and danced Tango during the night" - Peakfinder's creator Also, about 70% of the apps on F-Droid https://f-droid.org/ https://f-droid.org/ are fine. This is what I miss most about android. I do think that by percentage more of the iOS apps are exploitative crap or full of ads, probably because you need to pay $100/year for the app to keep existing at all. One of tricks to get fewer exploitative apps is to avoid iPhone and never install anything that needs google play services. Also, delete any app that has an ad instantly unless it's really important.

Groxx 1y ago
>This is what I miss most about android. oh don't worry, Google is trying to kill that too. you won't have to miss Android soon. https://developer.android.com/developer-verification https://developer.android.com/developer-verification discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45017028 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45017028
sebastiennight 1y ago
> about 70% of the apps on F-Droid https://f-droid.org/ https://f-droid.org/ are fine Wait, what's wrong with the other 30%?
- TheDong 1y ago
  There's stuff like NewPipe, which is just youtube videos so it's awful for the soul. There's also games and blockchain apps which are bad for the soul
  - sebastiennight 1y ago
    > There's stuff like NewPipe, which is just youtube videos so it's awful for the soul. You do get to pick the videos, and have none imposed to you (through ads), so unless you're saying the entire video medium is awful for the soul, I'm thinking one could pick content that they find "good" for their soul?

Groxx 1y ago

>This is what I miss most about android. oh don't worry, Google is trying to kill that too. you won't have to miss Android soon. https://developer.android.com/developer-verification https://developer.android.com/developer-verification discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45017028 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45017028

sebastiennight 1y ago

> about 70% of the apps on F-Droid https://f-droid.org/ https://f-droid.org/ are fine Wait, what's wrong with the other 30%?

TheDong 1y ago
There's stuff like NewPipe, which is just youtube videos so it's awful for the soul. There's also games and blockchain apps which are bad for the soul
- sebastiennight 1y ago
  > There's stuff like NewPipe, which is just youtube videos so it's awful for the soul. You do get to pick the videos, and have none imposed to you (through ads), so unless you're saying the entire video medium is awful for the soul, I'm thinking one could pick content that they find "good" for their soul?