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<span class="text__notice">Aptoide seems to have taken down the webpage that this post disputes - I've updated the link to open a copy stored on archive.org.</span> |
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<div class="card card-accent"><p class="card-body">Aptoide seems to have taken down the webpage that this post disputes - I've updated the link to open a copy stored on archive.org.</p></div> |
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<span class="text__attention">About a week ago,</span> Aptoide created the website |
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<span class="text-large">About a week ago,</span> Aptoide created the website |
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["GooglePlayFair.com"](http://web.archive.org/web/20190605045259/https://googleplayfair.com/) as part of what |
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[several news outlets](https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/04/aptoide-a-play-store-rival-cries-antitrust-foul-over-google-hiding-its-app/) |
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are calling a public campaign against Google's allegedly "anti-competitive behavior". Upon my initial skim through |
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@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ the project for not being "real open source", so I am very excited to see compan |
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party tools for Android which do not depend on Google's permission to operate. However, writing this blog has really |
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made me question if I want to personally support Aptoide or not. |
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I am inevitably left hesitant to reccommend Aptoide to an end user if they cannot keep their |
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I am inevitably left hesitant to recommend Aptoide to an end user if they cannot keep their |
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[long history of serving malware and piracy](https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/2u3aav/apparently_my_app_is_available_for_free_at_aptoide/) |
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at bay. With this in mind, it makes Google's "unfair" treatment of Aptoide seem a lot more justifiable. Don't get |
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me wrong, Aptoide was right to file an antitrust complaint against them, but I can almost emphasize with Google's |
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@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ should do in order to remain "secure" and be able to compete with F-Droid and Go |
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several users [seem to have had trouble](https://social.jlelse.me/objects/29950d77-8d77-4c7c-884f-45f9df2fabcd) removing their |
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information in the past. |
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For users and developers, I would reccommend against using Aptoide for now, mainly because of the reasons above. A better alternative |
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For users and developers, I would recommend against using Aptoide for now, mainly because of the reasons above. A better alternative |
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might be [F-Droid](https://f-droid.org/), a catalogue of free ([free as in libre](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratis_versus_libre)) |
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software in which submissions to the main repository are each manually reviewed and curated by a group of contributors. F-Droid |
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does also allow third-party repositories to operate, but does so in the same way that any open source software can be modified and |
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