The only app I can’t live without. Except for gboard, all of my applications are Foss. There is no competition for gboard’s swipe typing, not to mention its many capabilities like as searching for gifs, stickers, being able to paste copied images, translating, and so on. I’d like to know how I can use gboard while maintaining my privacy. According to what I’ve heard, it sends all typing data to Google’s server. If you ask me, that’s a massive no-no. Do you have any suggestions?

  • userEnglish
    15•2 years ago

    F-Droid has a lot of security issues(if you care about security), use Neo Store if you want access to F-Droid apps with a more secure app.

    EDIT: Even better to use Obtainium and add the links of the APP’s own Github/GitLab repo to it.

    • N-E-NEnglish
      7•2 years ago

      Any chance u can explain how Neo Store is more secure?

      • @[email protected]English
        3•2 years ago

        iirc fdroid utilizes very old api which is problematic as newer api gets newer security features droidify and neostore both are more modern

          • @[email protected]English
            2•2 years ago

            I don’t think it would make F-Droid itself more secure, but it’s best to get possible security updates for apps sooner with auto-updates.

    • @[email protected]English
      3•2 years ago

      I read through that article, and though I don’t have the time or knowledge to properly critique it, I found quite a lot of it unconvincing.

      It’s one thing to agree there are potential issues, but the article seemed to jump a bit too easily, via rhetoric more than logic, to “therefore it’s unsuitable” and similarly to “the other ones are better”.

      (Disclaimer: I only know mildly what I’m talking about!! If whoever reads this is interested, I hope you can follow the details to their source and get involved in the proper discussion for improving f-droid and/or encouraging another respiratory client.)