The Future of Accrescent
blog.accrescent.appAccrescent, for those who don’t know, is an alternative android app store. They aim to compete directly with the play store, so unlike F-Droid they include both FOSS and proprietary apps. They are also very security focused. They’re still small but I find their approach interesting and their ambition worth supporting.
Unfortunately, as with many FOSS projects, funding is a challenge. If you believe they are worth supporting, please read the linked blog post.
Disclaimer: I’m not affiliated with the project in any way, just a fan trying to raise awareness.
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That’s an absolutely valid choice.
It’s not however the choice that the majority of people make. Weaning them off the play store needs an alternative with proprietary apps.
I might even be okay with having proprietary apps in it if you had to manually go and enable it and got a warning about the fact that proprietary apps could be dangerous because you don’t know what they’re doing.
By default, though, it should only show FOSS
It would be really nice if they let you have third party repositories, again with a disclaimer that it could be dangerous.
That way, they would not be subject to apt takedown requests because even if they took it down, the app developer could just launch their own onion repo and host it themselves. But instead of giving the user a warning and telling them what could go wrong, they are like, no, we’re going to make the decision for you. Therefore, I have to make the decision not to use them.
Last I heard, the intention is that users will be able to filter for open-source apps if they want.
I haven’t seen anything warning against proprietary apps specifically. As a minimum, I would hope that they implement an agreement similar to the play store where the app developers are legally bound by the privacy terms in the app description (re data, advertising, etc.). This statement could maybe include an alternative wording for OS vs Proprietary apps? Definitely something to think about.
Edit to add: I can’t comment on 3rd party repositories. Too technical for me.