GottaHaveFaith

You can install it and start it only if needed, there’s no need to fiddle with your current DE

Overblown. You’d think they sold weapons to nazi, they sent a couple of laptops to open source developers which turned out to be assholes. People probably give more money to nazi when shopping and paying taxes

So you think there’s a lot of people who just browse the play store everyday?

If my personal experience is not enough what about yours? Have you done some kind of research?

About ads that’s just a personal decision by the developer and Google has nothing to do with it. Most developers just publish the same fdroid version on the play store without ads

I simply don’t think it’s a move related to money, or at least not directly related to money.

I open the play store less than once a month, if they remove fdroid I guess I’ll open it twice a month? How much money can they make for the 2 rows of sponsored apps they show me (which I don’t tap anyway) in the 30 seconds necessary to find an app and press install?

People installing apks outside the play store are already a minority. Beside myself I think I know 1 person who may be using fdroid, maybe 2

I guess it could be a really dumb monetary choice? You never know with corporations

I don’t think so, most of the open source apps on fdroid are already on the play store

I think most selfhosters already know/use Linux, so management issues are already known. About the ease of use, if you manage services with docker it’s really easy to bring them up/down, and if you want some GUI there’s portainer.

Yeah, I love open source and privacy, but developers are staying on github because it’s not enshittified (yet). I do wish we’d all move to another platform, if anyone wants to keep the github UI, gitea (and forgejo/codeberg) straight up cloned it at a certain point, see https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo for example

If I had to guess, there are various fingerprinting techniques, and some of them use things like drawing on canvases to track you. They are probably referring to that.