My bank actually reccommends Firefox alongside Chrome and Safari.

Which is pretty much the only thing I can respect about them, sadly.

It’s great, isn’t it? F-Droid can be pretty slow sometimes

I am, I’m already using it

The lead dev sold simplemobiletools to Zippo Apps (or whatever they’re called), a company known for buying apps and stuffing them full of ads, trackers and bullying people into buying subscriptions.

That news came a bit out of the blue, and while I understand why he sold it, the fact that he sold it to such a fuckface company that goes against everything his apps stood for is… yeah

The simplemobiletools apps are being forked by one of their bigger co-developers, so I’ll just use that as soon as it’s available.

Until then, as long as you got the build from F-Droid, there shouldn’t be anything to worry about.

You give me 5 mill, and I give you my old email that doesn’t exist anymore.

That’s about as fair as data collection is the other way around.

CONSTANTLY drag stuff around, get lost and then claim she didn’t go anything

Nothing is quite as relatable to me as this. Do they genuinely not realize? Are they too proud to admit they did something? I will never know

Signal does in fact distribute an APK that isn’t dependant on Play Services/FCM on their website. Uses a websocket, so not the most elegant way I guess, but oh well.

It’s rather hidden, which I think is disappointing. But it exists. Updates itself, too.

True, I’ve just checked up on that. The devices themselves don’t do anything creepy, but the app contains a few trackers according to Exodus Privacy, which is not ideal if you want to use everything to its full extent

Idk, the Garmin Connect App is also not great in terms of privacy. And so far, only one Garmin product works with Gadgetbridge

It’s quite easy if you never were (much) on social media to begin with

I thought I’d just grab the APK directly from Github, but would you look at that, the latest release is from June 2022, same as what’s on F-Droid

There’s always a first time for learning something new. So go ahead and try it on something small and inconsequential when the opportunity presents itself.

Just need to know the basics of electricity and how it goes where. Many wires are colour coded too, so there’s even less to worry about.