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Re:KDE Connect removed from Google Play store for violating ... by ForHackernews on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @08:14AM (#19430057)
I trust the F-Droid maintainers more than J. Random app developer, honestly.
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Re:KDE Connect removed from Google Play store for violating ... by Arnt on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @08:25AM (#19430105)
Care to elaborate? You're trusting the developer to write the source code and do all the debug builds, what's the problem with building the production build?
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Re:KDE Connect removed from Google Play store for violating ... by ubercow13 on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @09:14AM (#19430441)
Assuming you trust F-Droid, it eliminates the possibility that the developer isn't using their published source code. eg. they might hide their tracking code from their public github repo but build it into their release apk.
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