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Why would people have Google security going on if they have set up F-Droid as their appstore? Doesn't that defeat the entire purpose?
Well according to the OP, it's a list they offer for free and it's integrated with many browsers including Firefox...
Like I understand that if I buy a phone from Apple, and they control everything on the phone and what I can install - well I mean I bought it from Apple, what else did I expect?
But I didn't buy my phone from Google. They should have no say in what I could or couldn't install.
You bought a phone running a Google operating system, knowingly so. This one is on you buddy.
I mean, I don't think it matters if you bought the phone from Google or not (and you could have). Samsung or Motorola or whoever shouldn't have any say either.