nottheengineer

Exxon won't give a shit, but apple probably will. Half of their marketing is greenwashing, so they'll have to think of something new.

Maybe some people will also understand that corporations aren't their friends, but with apple users that's a rather slim chance.

How about privacy.com?

It lets you create a virtual credit card for every subscription and the point is that you can cancel those with a single click, but it's also said to be a good way of keeping track of the subscriptions.

They already have plans to DRM the entire fucking web. That's why I am currently cutting google out of my life step by step.

Oh, that's from the installer and not one of those warnings you get after opening apps. Makes sense.

I missed that, thanks for pointing it out. The one without S is the correct one.

But that makes me wonder, how did OP not end up with two signal apps then?

~~The package name is correct~~, but signal was never on F-droid.

Do you have a third party repo that might be compromised?

Edit: Package name isn't correct, so that's almost definitely a compromised version. Get rid of it ASAP.

Ripped right from wikipedia: "A backdoor is a typically covert method of bypassing normal authentication or encryption in a computer, product [...]."

Given you can't be arsed to google that on your own, I don't see s point in arguing.

Downloading and running binaries isn't anything to worry about. Many apps do that to circumvent the update delays that apple and google put in place.

Browsers also download and run code from any website you visit. The security measures make sure that this code can't just do anything, just like on android.

Tiktok is indeed more malicious than any other app I can think of, but it isn't a backdoor.

US tech is backdoored just as hard as chinese stuff. None of the companies involved need to know when and for what the government uses backdoors, so they generally don't.

I'd recommend against Ubuntu. It uses snaps and it'll teach you that the hard way eventually by having very weird issues.

Mint is based on ubuntu but says no to snaps, so that's a good place to start.