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
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
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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
oh wicked, I didn’t know android was there yet