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randomaccount43543@lemmy.world to OpenStreetMap community@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year ago

Google removed Organic Maps from the Play Store

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Google removed Organic Maps from the Play Store

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Attached: 1 image Last night Organic Maps was removed from the Play Store without any warnings or additional details due to "not meeting the requirements for the Family Program". Compared to Google Maps and other maps apps rated for 3+ age, there are no ads or in-app purchases, and no user information is collected in Organic Maps. We have asked for an appeal. As a temporary workaround you can install the upcoming Google Play update from this link: https://cdn.organicmaps.app/apk/OrganicMaps-24081605-GooglePlay.apk This APK should work with Android Auto.
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    Just get it from F-droid and be done with it.

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      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.

      https://x.com/GrapheneOS/status/1803185925112934533

      https://privsec.dev/posts/android/f-droid-security-issues/

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        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.

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