Ask HN: What's the Deal with Lineageosroms.com?
- it tries to look as official as possible - it has no 'mission statement' or explanation - it manages to come in near the top of search results - almost nobody ever talks about it - it has old builds that the official site doesn't have anymore - I download the nexus 5 zip and checked it with https://github.com/LineageOS/update_verifier and it checks (I hope that means it was just copied from straight from the old site, and that I am safe to use it for an experiment, and it it is no more unsafe than any other old android phone) - they have been banned from twitter https://twitter.com/lineageosroms - there are no ads - almost nobody is talking about this. one person says "no not legit" and somebody else says "scammers like lineageosroms.com" - they care enough to put this at the bottom "Content of this page is based on informations from github and LineageOS Wiki, under CC BY-SA 3.0 licence." - nothing useful in whois
I'm having trouble connecting all the dots. I would have asked on lineageos subreddit except they have this rule: > Don't link to or discuss unofficial builds or sites. Please don't post links to unofficial builds or unofficial news sources. If it's not lineageos.org -- it's not official.
So here is the best I can do: - it's a scam that inserts malware into zips, just not the rom I checked - I didn't check the zip well enough - It's a well meaning person that put it all the work for their idea, but never got around to telling anybody about it or explaining it, and is now gets dismissed as a scammer - It's a proposed redesign and/or part of some internal lineageos dispute - It's the same as all the other copy pasted content search result spam on the internet, except they forgot to put the banners in - It's doing stuff to my browser that I don't know about when I visit the site
Any idea?