Re:F-Droid: how it weakens Android's security model
by lucb1e on Thursday February 24, 2022 @05:09PM
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If you trust Microsoft/GitHub more than F-Droid, you could also grab it from there: https://github.com/termux/termux-app#github (you'll have to take care of your own update mechanism though)
Not that I'd recommend it personally, but f-droid isn't the only option. Kind of the beauty of open source :). So often apps (e.g. from the government for corona) are only available if you first agree to the Google TOS and privacy policy. Which, of course, most people already did anyway, but the point here is that you don't need to if there's just a build from the devs somewhere, or a build environment you can replicate without too much trouble.
Not that I'd recommend it personally, but f-droid isn't the only option. Kind of the beauty of open source :). So often apps (e.g. from the government for corona) are only available if you first agree to the Google TOS and privacy policy. Which, of course, most people already did anyway, but the point here is that you don't need to if there's just a build from the devs somewhere, or a build environment you can replicate without too much trouble.