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- privacy@programming.dev
cross-posted from: https://piefed.ca/c/canada/p/727265/signal-to-ottawa-we-ll-leave-canada-before-we-help-you-spy-on-users
Signal is drawing a hard line on the federal government’s proposed surveillance legislation: comply with Bill C-22 or leave the country. The secure messaging app says it would rather ditch the Canadian market than be forced to weaken the privacy protections it has built its reputation on. In an interview with The Globe and Mail
Or people could just install it from fdroid.
Oh wait, signal isn’t FOSS so it isn’t allowed on fdroid.
Molly is on fdroid I believe
Yep and Molly is even better :)
Not the official repo…because they couldn’t meet it’s acceptance criteria. Which is a red flag
I think it used to, but unfortunely Molly is not on Fdroid’s repo. You can download it from the app, but you’d need to add Molly’s repo
https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android AGPL
Lol no.
Download the apk. It includes that AGPL and also non free blobs. Just because part of if is Foss does not make if foss
Nothing to laugh at here in my view. It is FOSS. The reason it isn’t on there is sort of procedural. You could easily build signal from source, but signal prefers only their builds connect to their servers. They of course can’t enforce this but fdroid is happy to do so.
what about Molly, then?
Molly is Foss, but it’s not on fdroid for likely other sketchy reasons
Its on Accrescent though
You can import the repo into F-Droid.
…and make yourself less secure, sure
I get it from FDroid via the Guardian repo. No issues.
Security issues. guardian repo has no acceptances criteria. Closed source blobs? Allowed.
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Well unless they want to add verified APKs of all the apps I do use to their app store, their frowning is useless because every graphene user basically needs f-droid as it stands now.
And we frown upon grapheneOS because of numerous human concerns