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by whimsicalism 411 days ago
Presumably F-Droid is subject to the same regulatory requirements, so in this case it is directly the regulation to blame.
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F-Droid isn’t in the same business, and doesn’t sell apps, so it’s not subject to the same regulatory requirements.
F-Droid has apps with the "ads" anti-feature, so this probably applies to them.
I think it’d apply to the app owner. F-Droid isn’t in the advertising business either, doesn’t get any revenue.

That feature flag just changes what is allowed to appear in search results.

The DSA applies to

> all online intermediaries and platforms operating within the EU