Has anyone noticed that apps on F-Droid or that you just get from GitHub are just better than the ultra-popular apps on the play store? Most of them are open source and have no ads or trackers. But this isn’t true on the Play Store at all.

I see myself always getting apps from F-Droid now because there is always an alternative to the ad-infested bloated privacy infesting BS that I find on the play store. It’s unfortunate that it’s gotten this bad, where the only reason I even use the play store is to install updates or games.

  • zxo@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’ll give you a few from F-Droid (and maybe IzzyOnDroid too):

    • Auxio is a pretty good lightweight music player
    • NewPipe is an anonymous YouTube client without ads or tracking
    • Obtanium is an app that allows you to auto-update apps from many sources like GitHub, GitLab, and F-Droid
    • Bromite (use this repo instead of the out of date F-Droid version) is a hardened version of Chromium with features like ad blocking and less spyware Those are just a couple apps, there are a ton more on F-Droid. I reccomend using the Droid-ify client because it has more default repos and better UI.