• delirious_owl@discuss.online
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    5 months ago

    The effect is on the devs, not the users. If its lower friction for a dev’s users to install their app from their own third party app, then the devs are less likely to strip out anti features like reliance on third party trackers because they don’t have to do that if they host their own repo

    • gazby@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      5 months ago

      I agree that what you’ve said is correct, but I don’t see how it would impede someone using the official repos. If telemetry is of major concern, there are alternative approaches (e.g. PiHole).