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Half the point is that I trust this middleman more than the app devs. When app developers turn evil ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38505229 ), I explicitly want someone reviewing things and blocking software that works against my interests before it gets to me.

Obtainium assumes that the app developer is a trustworthy entity, when the reality behind the mobile ecosystem being as fucked up as it is primarily comes from the app developer. (Due to bad incentives made by mobile platform makers, mainly Apple.)

You need a middleman in place in case the app developer goes bad.

I have it installed. But the only thing I get updates for is Obtainium itself. There's no catalogue of apps, so I haven't installed anything via Obtainium.

I would uninstall. Author and app seem sketchy.

Will you elaborate?

Here's a catalog of apps from the Obtainium wiki.

https://apps.obtainium.imranr.dev/

They put the disclaimer on top that this list is not meant as an app store or catalog. It's meant for apps with somewhat complex requirements for adding to Obtainium. But it serves well as a catalog since most of the major open source apps are listed.

Try Discoverium

this seems to be a general app finder and tracker. useful, but entirely different from what f-droid does, namely verify that apps are actually Free Software or Open Source and buildable from source.

How is this not another middleman (with a political banner in its README no less)?

At this point it is not political, the banner mention a fact and a tragedy and link for donations to reputable NGOs.

I know this is off-topic, as is this whole sub-thread by now. But is there a way to read the news as the Israelis do? I sometimes read rt.com (even though I need a vpn for that, somehow my government feels I'm not allowed to study this??), it helps me understand how Russian media presents news to their citizens. Is there anything like that for Israeli news?

Our Dutch news (and I think most EU news) is pretty much presenting us with the view that Israel has lost it (stories about young men searching for food being shot in the genitals for fun and such [0]), so I'm very curious how their government presents things to its civilians.

[0] https://nos.nl/nieuwsuur/artikel/2575933-beschietingen-bij-z...

Would you prefer English content? You could try ynetnews.com, which I believe is translated from Ynet's Hebrew articles, for a very mainstream Israeli source.

There are also fully English sources like Times of Israel, though though it has sort of an international audience, not only Israelis.

Thanx! (Yes English is best!)

I think it acts more as an rss feed reader rather than building and hosting apps on it's own.

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