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Re:CalyxOS – De-Googled Android Alternative by jefftk on Friday August 06, 2021 @02:19PM (#28091016)
Sorry! I understood you to be saying that the definition of FOSS includes no ads or trackers, and I wanted to make sure no one was misled by that.

Additionally, as you say, the F-droid repository does contain apps with those properties; they're labeled, not excluded.

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Re:CalyxOS – De-Googled Android Alternative by spinax on Friday August 06, 2021 @02:25PM (#28091082)
Trivia: by default (unless it has changed upstream), the F-Droid app defaults to "Include anti-feature apps: Off" in the Settings. The user must go in there and manually opt-in to see all the anti-feature apps on the mobile client.
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Re:CalyxOS – De-Googled Android Alternative by sphinxcdi on Saturday August 07, 2021 @06:37AM (#28097506)
It doesn't actually hide apps with "anti-features", you can still see them by default. The only thing it does is hide the description and install button of apps with "anti-features" in the search screen. It seems like a half-baked feature.
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