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by ce4
1870 days ago
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One example would be basic apps and games like flashlights, editors, sudoku, minesweeper, note taking apps etc, of which 95% on the play store are ad/tracking infested. I just skip those and install f-droid's "reccomendation", problem solved. Also: Fennec is great (a rebuild of Mozilla Firefox mobile) and they also offer older versions in parallel (also via their archive). Their Firefox "fennec" build while not being a fork nevertheless has some tweaks, optimizations and brought back addons (via collections, you need to read the whole thread, it's long though), much appreciated: https://forum.f-droid.org/t/welcome-a-new-fennec-f-droid/111... I have just submitted 882 a Fennec update to 81.1.1. Should be available soon™. This version brings a lot of changes, like a new UI and modular codebase. The bad news:
Mozilla now tracks you even more actively using proprietary 3rd party services. I removed all tracking I found. (Firebase, Adjust and Leanplum libraries were replaced with stubs, so some analyzers can erroneously report their presence in the APK.)
The new UI may break your habits and disappoint you. (IMHO it’s not that bad as one can conclude from reading r/Firefox.)
Android 5.0 or later is now required. Mozilla decided so.
x86 devices are not supported anymore. I stumbled upon linkage errors and gave up. Help is welcome.
The good news is that Fennec F-Droid is alive and continues to be truly free software."
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