Remember people, if newpipe give error when try to play a video, just turn your phone horizontally and vertically until the error leave. Is really easy
Remember people, if newpipe give error when try to play a video, just turn your phone horizontally and vertically until the error leave. Is really easy
I hear you, but they have to to sign the packages because android builds are not reproducible. Yeah it’s an extra notch in the chain, but it’s an extra check against bad binaries too
I disagree, there are many resources for making and distributing android reproducible builds, including third-party F-Droid repos like IzzyOnDroid mentioned in my previous link.
And to my knowledge there is no technical requirement that F-Droid actually needs to build OR sign packages on behalf of anyone… I haven’t seen any actual official rationale listed for it, but I assume one of the main reasons is convenience for the developers so they don’t have to provide their own builds and deal with signing/losing keys.
I understand that the risk of problems can be somewhat mitigated in F-Droid by using reproducible builds, but I don’t consider that sufficient for the most privacy-conscious users because:
reproducible builds are not required by F-Droid
it is not made clear to the user that a particular package even supports reproducible builds
the verification of reproducible builds is not made plainly visible somewhere publicly if at all
a user can still easily be misled by a one-off rogue package that is NOT reproducible, due to the previous point
independent verifications of those builds reliably made by others are not common