I get a lot of value out of F-Droid, my ass is going to be very chapped if Google manages to kill it.
this post was submitted on 29 Sep 2025
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Truly. The majority of the apps I use are from f-droid, without them I might as well have a flip phone.
I filled out this EU DMA form and I wrote the following:
"Google unilaterally decreed that Android developers everywhere in the world are going to be required to register centrally with Google.
This further threatens access to open software and the right to install software of choice on Android devices such as smartphones. This constitutes yet another obstacle to digital sovereignty. Furthermore, it is an antitrust issue because it serves Google's aim to establish a monopoly over the Android software ecosystem.
It is of vital importance that platforms such as the F-droid store can continue to offer open software independently from the influence of Google and the USA.
Please table this matter for discussion. It is vital that the EU puts in place and enforces legislation that prevents companies like Google from harming user's ability to run software of their choosing on the devices that they own.
Please see Google's unilateral decree:
https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/08/elevating-android-security.html"
~~The author seemed to struggle with their CMS, but you can get the gist.~~
Ah good, they've fixed it now. The version I saw, for reference.
... Why are you being downvoted for pointing it out wtf...
Yeah, I was confused too. Perhaps they didn't see any problem and instead of realising the page had been edited after I commented they just downvoted.
Back to that article, I wonder if they were trying to add links into their footnotes and that broke stuff. They seemed to have fixed it by deleting them all, but that's quite a lot of content gone.
E.g. after pairing up the broken footnotes with their endings that stayed in the main text you can see these:
How many F-Droid users are there, exactly? We don’t know, because we don’t track users or have any registration. “No user accounts, by design”: https://f-droid.org/2022/02/28/no-user-accounts-by-design.html
“Sideload” is a weird euphemism that the mobile duopoly came up with; it means “installing software without our permission,” which we used to just call “installing software” (because you don’t need a manufacturer’s permission to install software on your computer).’ — Pluralistic: Darth Android: https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/01/fulu/
Yea the rich editor probably broke on an update or something. I've dealt with that before. Those rich text editors like ckeditor are amazing, until they break one day or a plugin becomes unsupported and you either fix it, or it messes up loads of your content... Caching saved us more than once with that sort of thing. We just used the cached pages and lelft the original completely broken, it just couldn't be edited anymore but it showed up fine.