afporritt1001@lemmy.today to DeGoogle Yourself@lemmy.ml · 9 days agoAndroid will let ‘experienced users’ sideload unverified apps as Google makes case for verificationmessage-squaremessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up141file-text
arrow-up141message-squareAndroid will let ‘experienced users’ sideload unverified apps as Google makes case for verificationafporritt1001@lemmy.today to DeGoogle Yourself@lemmy.ml · 9 days agomessage-square9fedilinkfile-text
minus-square18107@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up36·9 days agoNo. Not good enough. F-Droid apps are all open source and verified. You don’t get much safer than that. Google should not be blocking anything that’s not on the play store.
minus-squareArdens@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up20·9 days agoF-droid doesn’t promise to keep you safe. So please don’t make it out to be safer than it is. You still have to use common sense.
minus-squareWhyJiffie@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·9 days agojust like with the play store
minus-squareWhyJiffie@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·8 days agoyes, I know, but I wanted to make sure it is also mentioned that in the malware regard the play srore is not any better (lot worse currently)
No. Not good enough.
F-Droid apps are all open source and verified. You don’t get much safer than that.
Google should not be blocking anything that’s not on the play store.
F-droid doesn’t promise to keep you safe. So please don’t make it out to be safer than it is. You still have to use common sense.
just like with the play store
yes, but that’s not what was mentioned…
yes, I know, but I wanted to make sure it is also mentioned that in the malware regard the play srore is not any better (lot worse currently)