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Honestly, the play store is not any better than the apple app store.

I myself never agreed to the play store's license agreement and use my android phone without it.

If you really care about privacy, consider hosting your apps apk yourself or post it to a store that really respects its users privacy, like f-droid instead of supporting the play store. If your app is opensource like you state, f-droid should host it.

Take care, Martin



I agree with your sentiments about privacy and f-droid, but must nit-pick your statement:

> Honestly, the play store is not any better than the apple app store.

Both stores fail at certain criteria, but by other criteria the Google Play store is actually far, far better than the app store.




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