‘AI is reliant on mass surveillance’ and we should be cautious, warns head of messaging app | 7.30
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How would that prevent you from forking the app? F-droid isn’t a repository for the code of the app. I don’t think this is related at all.

I don’t actually know the reason why it’s not on F-droid but I assume it has some historical reason. It has never been on F-drroid since Text-secure. Moxy Marlinspike was strictly against it afaik. If somebody has more detail on it, feel free to share it.

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Because today if you find a Signal app on Fdroid you’re sure that it’s nonofficial, on the play store only one app is allowed, the official.

You’re not allowed to upload apps with proprietary blobs. Google Push services is a proprietary blob.

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