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Using F-droid is a security risk 2017-06-24 10:03:18 Post No. 61064994
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If you're a depressed nerd who fall for "free and open source software" propaganda pieces to fill the void in your heart and use inferior hobbyist software like F-droid over the obvious choice (the default Playstore), you should know that you're exposing your devices to a huge security risk.
It turns out that the F-droid repository is largely unmaintained. You're likely using outdated, flawed, broken versions of applications for which there are recent updates on the Google Playstore.
I'll use an app that is a symbol of "free software" itself as an example: VLC.
People who aren't manipulated by suspicious ideologies and kept the Playstore on their devices are enjoying the version 2.0.6 right now.
The most recent version on F-droid, without further comments: still 1.9.0, released over a year ago.
And this is a major freetard app. If you pay attention to the release dates of other random applications, you'll learn that some have stopped receiving updates on F-droid YEARS ago - while still being actively developed and published on the Playstore.
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What the fucking fuck happened to f-droid anyway?
It looks like Facebook just purchased it.
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>>61064994
Wow, that bait really cost you some time. Enjoy your guilty pleasures, whatever they are, yuck.
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>>61064994
Marlinspike is that you?
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I use it but only for stuff that isn't in the playstore. Is that ok op?
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>>61064994
>The most recent version on F-droid, without further comments: still 1.9.0, released over a year ago.
It's not even in the active repo you fucking idiot.
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>>61064994
>without further comments
There's a thread on that. VLC fails to compile with their current setup.
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>>61064994
The point is to use it to download apps that are not on the play store, such as GadgetBridge, and those apps are updated regularly (because F-droid is the main release channel)
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It's the main appstore for CopperheadOS and Replicant. They really need to get their shit together.
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>>61064994
VLC is trash, the playstore version is maintained by a chinese malware company
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