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   Organic Maps (organicmaps@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 30-Aug-2024 21:33:03 JST Organic Maps

   Due to "anti-features" introduced unilaterally by some people from FDroid community, it is not possible to find Organic Maps using the search in FDroid client without tinkering with its settings first: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/issues/3347

   By default, it is possible to find apps with ads, with tracking, with non-free network services, dependencies and assets, apps without source code and with known vulnerabilities. But it is not possible to find Organic Maps, an open-source app without ads and tracking.

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     Michał (ricoelectrico@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 30-Aug-2024 21:33:56 JST Michał

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     • chfkch :nixos: :rust:

     @chfkch @organicmaps No, it's even better. F-Droid folks took issue with the fact that you can't change the location of map download server easily.
     AFAIK, Kayak links are disabled in F-Droid builds now.

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     chfkch :nixos: :rust: (chfkch@ruhr.social)'s status on Friday, 30-Aug-2024 21:33:58 JST chfkch :nixos: :rust:

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     @organicmaps
     Is it because of the "hotel widget includes a link to kayak" thing ?

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     James 🌈💜 (shaknais@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 30-Aug-2024 21:40:50 JST James 🌈💜

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     • Michał

     @RicoElectrico
     It looks like the marking happened around the kayak links:

     https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/commit/adf09304a5296b71afab0501ce2ff8fde50ff510

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     Hippo 🍉 (badrihippo@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 30-Aug-2024 21:40:53 JST Hippo 🍉

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     • James 🌈💜
     • Michał

     @shaknais @RicoElectrico "you can't change the location of the map download server" has now been changed to a new antifeature called "Tethered Network Services", as per this:

     https://f-droid.org/2024/07/25/twif.html

     It refers to services that are centralised but open source, and it isn't autoblocked like "Non-Free Network Services would be"

     From the PR it looks like Organic Maps has both Tethered (which is fine) and NonFree (because of the kayak thing, and which will cause it to be filtered out by default)

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     cos (cos@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 30-Aug-2024 21:41:15 JST cos

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     • F-Droid

     @organicmaps @fdroidorg "This app promotes or depends entirely on a non-free network service" anti-feature really makes no sense. Even having some defaults to services that are not completely free triggers this, even if the app can be fully used with completely free services.

     "This app depends entirely on a non-free network service " would be acceptable criteria. But still hiding apps with anti-features by default just sucks.

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     F-Droid (fdroidorg@floss.social)'s status on Friday, 30-Aug-2024 21:42:39 JST F-Droid

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     @organicmaps yes, our communication about this change was not ideal.

     We tried to cover it in https://f-droid.org/2024/07/25/twif.html and https://f-droid.org/2024/04/04/twif.html, but apparently it wasn't read by everybody (surprise, surprise 🙈).

     Unfortunately, we didn't find any good technical solution to enable the new Anti-Feature automatically (but only for those, who didn't change their AFs manually).

     Moreover, this new AF was designed to clearly differentiate, that apps like OM are NOT NonFreeNet, but only TetheredNet.

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     Anupam 《ミ》λ≡ (haskman@functional.cafe)'s status on Friday, 30-Aug-2024 21:42:47 JST Anupam 《ミ》λ≡

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     • F-Droid

     @fdroidorg @organicmaps I'm not seeing tethered net as a separate option in the anti features setting, and organic maps only shows up when I allow "others", which is slightly concerning. I'm using fdroid basic 1.20.