I installed Bitwarden from F-Droid, but I happened to notice yesterday that Bitwarden was in my list of apps with updates available from Play Store, even though I installed it via F-Droid. Why would that be?

I know this is a better question for the Bitwarden forums, but I don’t have enough street cred there to make a post.

  • LinkOpensChest.wavOPEnglish
    1•11 months ago

    So are you saying that the Google Play version of an app is likely to have more privacy than the F-Droid version?

    Also, I’ve noticed the F-Droid filter on Aurora Store is broken. All of my F-Droid apps still appear in my list of updates.

    • merde alors
      English
      2•11 months ago

      fDroid filter works for me 🤷

      you can put the apps you want ignored in the black list of Aurora too

      • LinkOpensChest.wavOPEnglish
        1•11 months ago

        Blacklist apps: By blacklisting apps, Google will not know that the selected apps are installed on your device

        I think blacklisting only hides the apps from Google, not Aurora

        • merde alors
          English
          2•11 months ago

          then when you blacklist apps, aurora no longer searches for their updates either 🤷

          try it for yourself. next time there is an update for an app; instead of updating, blacklist it. (you can always undo

          • LinkOpensChest.wavOPEnglish
            1•11 months ago

            Okay, so the only reason to blacklist an app would be if you didn’t want to update for some reason

              • LinkOpensChest.wavOPEnglish
                2•11 months ago

                Oh, I get it now. So I’d want to do that to my F-Droid apps, if I prefer to run their updates via F-Droid.