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Vorsicht mit dem neuen @accrescent App-Store:
Das ist ein neuer alternativer Android-App-Store, der von sich behauptet, auf Privacy und Security fokussiert zu sein. Er wird auch über den @GrapheneOS Appstore angeboten.
Bei genauerem Hinsehen finden sich allerdings Apps, die Werbe- und Analysetracking enthalten, wie ich nach kurzer Prüfung feststellte.
Der Entwickler sieht darin kein Problem …
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@rufposten @accrescent The purpose of Accrescent is not providing a small catered set of Android apps. It's meant to become an alternative to the Play Store where you could gets apps like Facebook or Uber. Accrescent never claims to disallow apps with advertising or analytics. It's not the purpose of what it's providing. It's meant to become a place people can get nearly any app instead of having to use the Play Store or a sketchy mirror site. It's not only for the apps you want to use.
@GrapheneOS @accrescent Thanks for the explanation. It's a good thing - but in my opinion it's misleading to advertise it a "privacy focused" app store if you can only download the usual apps with ad tracking in a secure way.
@rufposten @GrapheneOS @accrescent I understood that security is the main point, so I believe security-focused is the better wording as selling point.
@GrapheneOS @rufposten @accrescent why not giving tags like 'open source' or foss on first screen?
@voiges @GrapheneOS @rufposten @accrescent The open source tag is a planned feature: https://github.com/accrescent/meta/issues/25.
We intend to add filters so users can search for only open source apps as well.
@lberrymage @voiges @GrapheneOS @rufposten @accrescent such a toggle would be very important to clarify things. For me, that's a high priority feature