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   翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 28-May-2023 14:19:17 JST 翠星石

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   • Narbray
   @Narbray >for proprietary apps what should I use?
   The solution is to not do that.
   
   I cannot thing of a single proprietary Android cr..app that you should use.
   
   .apk's from the played store have a signature from google on them, which you can check manually with a tool that comes with the Android SDK, but really, whether or not the signature is valid, such .apk's are guaranteed to contain proprietary malware.
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     Narbray (narbray@varishangout.net)'s status on Sunday, 28-May-2023 14:19:18 JST Narbray
     I have been thinking about moving away from the play store as much as possible since I realized recently due to the aurora problems that maybe I am depending too much on the play store.
     
     however I am not sure
     
     for open source apps i can use fdroid and maybe obtanium
     
     but for proprietary apps what should I use?
     
     I was thinking about apkmirror but I'm not so sure.
     
     do you recommend apkmirror? not really sure how apkmirror works and how secure is it