I’m pissed that I bought simple gallery pro because it respected my privacy, then because the dev sold his soul for a ton of money, it now rapes my privacy
fyi, don’t use simple mobile tools anymore, it’s basically adware now, the project has been forked and renamed to fossify
he’s searching for fossify, the fork of simple
I’m blind lmfao
See here for the new permissions the Simple mobile tools apps require after it was sold to an ad-company. I think that speaks for itself: https://programming.dev/post/8634202
@Moonrise2473@feddit.it There is a fork of simple mobile tools available at https://github.com/FossifyOrg
Judging by what OP was searching for, they’re probably aware. And the scammers are too.
This is my general method to find and install apps:
-
First hit F-Droid
-
If F-Droid doesn’t have it, hit the Play Store through Aurora. Carefully assess each and every candidate returned by the Play Store search by searching for feedback on DDG, as I treat anything served up by Google as adware / spyware even if the Play Store says it’s free of ads, doesn’t need permissions or it’s open source.
-
If the Play Store doesn’t have it (an older version of an APK I specifically need for instance) hit APKPure or Aptoide. Download each promising APK manually, unzip it, look for sketchy things in the archive manually, then run the APK through Hypatia before sideloading it, because I treat anything served up by APKPure or Aptoide as malware.
-
deleted by creator
I only use the play store to keep critical apps (banking and security) updated. Everything else comes from Aurora.
Fossify is not even in the play store. I searched for it online and found the GitHub repo, it’s only available via f-droid and IzzyOnAndroid, so yeah, you can’t find it in the Google play store.
Most typical android user experience
deleted by creator
This is Google Play Store you dingus
deleted by creator
It has nothing to do with third party app stores.
Someone made an app that was genuinely very good. Then a company wanted to buy the app. The developer sold the app. The company loaded it with whatever spyware they wanted and pushed it in an update.
Now the app is garbage. Sadly it happens all the time. It happened to me right after I bought a year subscription to private internet access.
But to be clear this can happen on any platform or App Store official or not.
The company loaded it with whatever spyware they wanted and pushed it in an update. Now the app is garbage.
Wait what? I have it too and see no changes at all. How does it spy since the app has 0 bytes of traffic (now blocked it to be safe)?
Same here, seems like the exact same thing I’ve used for a few years now.
Edit. Apparently the sale just happened last December. Some discussion here: https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools/General-Discussion/issues/241
This is the exact sort of reason I have automatic updates off.
Fossify gallery is a fork of it BTW, works and looks exactly the same. I swapped mine to it.
Sorry, I was not very clear. I was speaking generally about how this process works to demonstrate that it has nothing to do with app stores.
deleted by creator
Btw since its sold you probably won’t recieve foss updates(they will be proprietary). So there is this fork called Fossify. And you could export all data in your apps as backups and restore it to fossify
deleted by creator
I don’t think this is as big of risk on F-droid because the apps are screened and compiled from source.
Just don’t go adding third party repos.
