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Fossify Gallery is now on F-Droid, and Simple Gallery got removed due to a proprietary dependency (beehaw.org)
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Fossify Gallery on the official F-Droid repo

The removal isn't directly related to the buyout/fork. Simple Gallery was taken off of F-Droid due to a dependency on the nonfree Google VR being discovered by IzzySoft¹ ². Fossify's fork has removed the dependent features to be compliant³.

  1. https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/merge_requests/14284
  2. https://github.com/FossifyOrg/Gallery/issues/36
  3. https://github.com/FossifyOrg/Gallery/issues/36#issuecomment-1873458105
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

This is one of the reasons Privacy Guides does not recommend F-Droid.

Ref: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/android/#verifying-apk-fingerprints

Solution: use Obtainium and point it to their GitHub repo.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Their point regarding old and unmaintained apps seems a bit silly. Getting the same old and unmaintained app from the app's website isn't going to make it any safer. You're still going to need to switch to a different app/fork to get updates.