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New Advertisement and Internet connection permissions for Simple SMS Messenger on Google Play Store... (lemmy.ml)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by reactive_recall@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] yamanii@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Will this be pushed to the F-droid version? Only downloaded from there.

[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

It seems F-droid won't accept the new versions, as the Suite has been acquired over a month ago and they haven't accepted any new versions, all Simple apps I've checked haven't been updated for 3-4 months; in fact, I can't find Simple Gallery there anymore at all.

The ads are probably against F-droid's TOS.

[–] lesnake@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

They probably removed gallery since fossify galery is on fdroid now

[–] Banana_man@reddthat.com 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I found simple gallery though. It even showed me that I had it installed as it should.

[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Huh, perhaps the problem is on my end then? But I can neither find it by searching the repository, nor is it on the list of my installed F-Droid apps, even though all the other Simple apps are there. And I'm 100% certain I'm not using the Play Store version.

[–] Banana_man@reddthat.com 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure, it seems others can't find it either. My own simple gallery works fine and without the new stuff everyone is complaining about here (I got it from f droid, so that's why). Maybe it's because it can't take down the page for a downloaded app?

[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Simple Gallery hasn't and couldn't have received the privacy-intruding update yet, as its last update was in October, according to the data on Play Store, i.e. before the acquisition. People are complaining about Simple Messenger, for now.

My own install of Gallery is from F-Droid, just as yours, yet I don't see it there anymore. It's not visible on the F-Droid website, unlike e.g. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.simplemobiletools.keyboard/

Maybe you can see it if you're using some repository other then the default one? Or your repository data hasn't been updated recently? Idk, just guessing.

[–] Banana_man@reddthat.com 2 points 9 months ago

I suppose we shall never know. F droid and all apps are up to date for me, so it's not that... I am not tech savvy enough to find out lol.

[–] amnesiac@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don't think so but might be though.

[–] TechieDamien@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago

Can't include any proprietary code, so using the google sdk would invalidate it I believe.

[–] Darken@reddthat.com 2 points 9 months ago

I believe fdroid + google services = nono

So we are safe on fdroid