Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one
Joined Aug 2019
For anyone who wants to relive the #Alphabet #DMAWorkshop the video has been released:
#DMA #compliance #competition #EC #EuropeanCommission #EU #gatekeepers #monopoly #mobile #Google #AI #GooglePlay #GooglePlayServices #GoogleFree #EDRi #FSFE #FDroid
A simple metric from #FDroid #metrics data: app downloads per week. Start with data from 1 of 2 servers for f-droid.org: http02, add hits for paths ending in ".apk". That gave about 2 million. Multiply by 18 (fronters + mirrors) and get ~36 mil app downloads a week.
import requests
hits = 0
r = requests.get(f'https://fdroid.gitlab.io/metrics/http03.fdroid.net/2025-05-26.json')
data = r.json()
for path in data['paths']:
if path.endswith('.apk'):
hits += data['paths'][path]['hits']
print('APKs', hits)
https://forum.f-droid.org/t/experiment-in-f-droid-org-metrics/32454
#Google funds this #EU think tank to put out policy papers saying #DigitalMarketsAct will break their lovely #PlayProtect scare screens, making us all less safe and "it require[s] Google to allow developers to insert links inside their Play Store apps".
https://ecipe.org/publications/eu-dma-undermine-security-mobile-operating-systems/#_ftn13
As I've always said in relation to the #DMA, let @fdroidorg compete on trustworthiness. I'd love to see this think thank include analysis malware rates of #CalyxOS with #FDroid and compare that to #GooglePlay #security
We're starting to implement support for split APKs in #FDroid. #Google wants to gather as much data about its users as possible, so trying to hide info about language, country, device specs was not a design concern for them. It is central for us. We want the official client to leak as little data as possible to any server, be it ours, mirrors, or custom repos. We welcome input:
https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient/-/issues/2963
#Android #APK #privacy #DataEfficiency #efficiency #technology #data #metadata
The first time I went to FOSDEM, I was constantly explaining what F-Droid was to people who never heard of it. I was introducing it and promoting it.
Second FOSDEM, people said "oh yeah, I heard of it, what does it do?"
Third FOSDEM, people said "I'm a user!"
Fourth FOSDEM, I listened to people tell other people what F-Droid is, and heard groups of people talking about it as the app store that everyone in the group had on their phone.
It has been quite a ride!
Joined Aug 2019
