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Re:Senators introduce bipartisan antitrust bill to promote a... by jpetso on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @11:04PM (#28151291)
There is F-Droid, which is a terrible client app but provides (non-Amazon, non-pirate) open source software such as NewPipe, Simple Notes or DavX.
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Re:Senators introduce bipartisan antitrust bill to promote a... by altantiprocrast on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @11:59PM (#28151718)
Foxydroid is a really nice and imo much faster F-Droid frontend https://f-droid.org/en/packages/nya.kitsunyan.foxydroid/

(not affiliated just a big fan)

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Re:Senators introduce bipartisan antitrust bill to promote a... by commoner on Thursday August 12, 2021 @12:08AM (#28151781)
There's also Aurora Droid, an F-Droid client developed by the creator of Aurora Store.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.aurora.adroid/

It's currently being rewritten to match Aurora Store v4's interface.

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Re:Senators introduce bipartisan antitrust bill to promote a... by neltnerb on Thursday August 12, 2021 @02:41AM (#28152799)
I think that these demands should require the built-in app store to support an interoperable feed to other sources. I think that they do but not clearly enough.

I doubt Google would interpret it that way, but that would be the fair way to do it. Make it so that the information is interoperable rather than just not actively disallowing it. Then it can stop being a monopoly.

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