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Re:Apple: We're not handing over Safari URLs to Tencent, jus... by Avamander on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @05:00AM (#21256723)
If players that big are in the game then no, F-Droid is a dangerous consolidation of power. They really shouldn't sign apps themselves and only sign over reproducible builds.
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Re:Apple: We're not handing over Safari URLs to Tencent, jus... by SXX on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @07:24AM (#21257396)
I really never digged into this, but isn't they already provide an option to do this? [0] And there is even an option to setup verification server [1]. I get it's not perfect, but they have limited resources and someone have to work on such feature full time.

[0] https://f-droid.org/docs/Reproducible_Builds

[1] https://f-droid.org/docs/Verification_Server/

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