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Damn, that means Google sees Organic maps as a threat. It is crazy how good it is.
I’m getting “download failed” on f-droid.
This means I want to install organic maps now.
Update: I like it, it got us home quicker than google yesterday. And the route was less boring
Does Google not currently have an anti trust lawsuit going on? Fine addition of them abusing their quasi monopoly position. But maybe they want to use this as argument “look people could just get it from fdroid” or something like that. IANAL
BTW does removal mean phones with enabled google protect will ask users to uninstall the app? I have this “feature” disabled.
play protect sucks, ye. I think I might just go for f-droid only for my next phone.
I’ll lose tiktok, but whatever
Fuck tiktok
There’s the Aurora Store on F-Droid that lets you install apps from Google’s store without giving any data/account info to Google. Works pretty well!
Oh ye! I used to use that! I don’t remember why I stopped tho
On the bright side I had never heard of this app. So thanks I’m checking it out now
It’s probably the best of the free and open source maps. I use it almost every day.
It is also apparently a threat to Google. If Google fears it then it must be solid. (Spoiler: it is as I use it)
evil
It’s back up now. It seems to have been a mistake to block it.
This is not the first time the play store removes an app for absolutely no reason and then refuses to explain why it did so, and it won’t be the last. Usually they don’t just reinstate the app for no reason.
I don’t think it was a mistake, but even if it was, they do not have proper communications to resolve such mistakes.
Well, at least now Google won’t try to update the app I installed through F-Droid.
That’s one of the reasons why we need to breaking up google. They use gapps and play store to control the android ecosystem.
Google’s anticompetitive practices are at it again.
Any info what the exact problem they had was? Can you search for brothels in that app or what? (I remember you can in OsmAnd)
There’s nothing you can find in open street maps that is not also going to have an equivalent in Google maps. There’s no messaging capability in the app. There aren’t even photos, except if you link it with Wikipedia. I can’t think of a single reason why this would get flagged, even accidentally.
Well some Wikipedia articles could be construed as not appropriate for kids if you’re dead set on removing the app.
I’m thinking of things like Auschwitz or Hiroshima or the Twin Towers where content could be objectionable for children, but also that’s a terrible argument because it’s Wikipedia and it’s a fantastic educational resource.
Organic Maps is also available via https://accrescent.app/ which is developed by a GrapheneOS community member and even hosted in the GrapheneOS App Store.
Accrescent is a private and secure Android app store built with modern features in mind. It aims to provide a developer-friendly platform and pleasant user experience while enforcing modern security and privacy practices and offering robust validity guarantees for installed apps.
Accrescent comes from within the GrapheneOS community and we’re collaborating together.
Just get it from F-droid and be done with it.
Or “just get it from Accrescent and be done with it?” Are you implying if you get it from Accrescent, you’re somehow not done with it? Sorry, I don’t follow your logic.
Also, no thanks on F-Droid as GrapheneOS recommends against and there are multiple security issues:
F-Droid has far too many security and trust issues for us to recommend it. The vast majority of apps in the official F-Droid repository are built on their sketchy infrastructure and signed with their own keys. We’re concerned about a future mass compromise of F-Droid users.
That’s old info. Apps are now signed by the developers on F-Droid since about a year ago:
but now with reproducible builds F-Droid ships APKs that are signed by the upstream developer(s).
Source: https://f-droid.org/2023/09/03/reproducible-builds-signing-keys-and-binary-repos.html
EDIT: I should note this doesn’t address the other issues in your second link (I have twitter blocked, can’t see that link) but it does fix the primary issue of the apps originally not being signed by the developer.
A grapheneos community member is just a random person
@GravitySpoiled @FutileRecipe The one thing I prefer in F-Droid over Accrescent is that the former ensures open source and does their own builds while the latter allows closed source submissions.
A grapheneos community member is just a random person
A random person that is mentioned specifically by the official GrapheneOS account, not to mention that GrapheneOS has said Accrescent is their recommended app store above F-Droid. Maybe Accrescent dev is not a GrapheneOS core dev, but still a step up, with more credibility, than just “a random person.”
True. I pushed them when they published the first build. I like it yet it’s not as open as an app store should be like fdroid or flatpak
The main thing they have going against them is the currently small list of apps, and it won’t grow unless people become aware of it and ask devs to put their apps there.
As for “not as open,” can you clarify what you mean? Yes, Accrescent does have “certain minimum requirements for all apps submitted to it to ensure the privacy and security of its users.” Is that what you mean,to loosen that? https://accrescent.app/docs/guide/appendix/requirements.html
There’s no other repos. It’s not federated, it’s not decentral. It’s like google’s store but from someone who’s endorsed by grapheneos. Maybe it’ll become the official grapheneos app store. (Its just a random thought) in that case it’ll get graoheneos’ reputation but still, there’s a reason why many people love fdroid and with the rise of reproducible builds it’ll become difficult to conquer their castle
I literally downloaded this two days ago. Wtf
Next up: StreetComplete.
Fuck pokemon go all my homies play streetcomplete
I recently started using it and screw you all for recommending it. My walks take like twice as long now.
Ok. Downloaded. Let’s see how it goes.
Have fun!
Someone still uses Google software? Poor souls…
