Post #4242015

2026-07-30 11:46 UTC

Ui, we're not alone, who'd have guessed. The F-Droid.org mirror at FAU (Friedrich-Alexander-University) meanwhile shows the following text if you try to download an APK file using your web browser: Unfortunately, Google abuses "SafeSearch" to flag our fdroid-mirror as "malicious" - because nobody is permitted to offer .apk-files for download other than the Google Play Store! As most browsers are dumb enough to trust "SafeSearch" to flag … (1/2) #Google #SafeBrowsing

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@IzzyOnDroid@floss.social 2026-07-30 11:47

(2/2) … actually harmful content and not just competition that Google does not like, this makes our site completely unreachable in most browsers. As a result, we have had no choice but to censor away all the .apk-files. You can still download these files from within f-droid - but no longer with a browser. Remember that's the company aiming for total control on web and Android? Resist! This behavior is intolerable.

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@dantalion@fosstodon.org 2026-07-30 15:16

@IzzyOnDroid@floss.social they have also repeatedly and consistently flagged mailcow instances, a FOSS stack to selfhost email #mailcow @doncow@mailcow.social

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@dantalion@fosstodon.org 2026-07-30 15:52

@IzzyOnDroid@floss.social The only reason I still have this 'feature' on in browsers. Is to know first hand when my domains inevitably get flagged again for no reason. #safebrowsing #google #monopoly

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