Let’s face it. Google’s Play Store is the largest app store out there right now, but there’s no doubt that it also does a significant amount of tracking. After all, the Mountain View company is the world’s largest ad broker, and data is today’s biggest currency. In addition, there are several apps on Google Play that abuse the company’s privacy and security policies to track user data and launch malware attacks.
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F-Droid is an app repository that offers only Fully Open Source Software (FOSS) with no tracking or hidden fees. It offers a focus on privacy and security with safety measures such as preventing browsing data leakage, sending all data over HTTPS, Tor support, and converting supported languages in metadata so as not to reveal your location.
Therefore, F-Droid seems like a good bet when it comes to the safety of your data. That said, we cannot guarantee that F-Droid, or any other app store, is 100% safe, or any safer than the Play Store itself.
You can install F-Droid on your phone just like any other app and then choose from over 2000 apps that you can download for free.
