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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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I has come to my attention that some users have never heard of F-droid. F-droid is a free software app store for android (f-droid.org)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The benefit of open source apps is anyone can view the code to see if there is malware or other installed.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

This is a bit of a fallacious point in this context - it suggests:

apps will be investigated by its users (not guaranteed, nor even likely for unpopular apps)
an app will even have users capable of detecting malware (I don't know squat about phone malware patterns, so I wouldn't be effective at it even if I did scan through thousands of lines of code)