Difficulty for dunce to setup an account to download F-Droid apk

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While I have no idea about your phone, I feel I should make sure to state that a full de-googling will cause many apps from other sources than F-Droid to not work as many depend on “Google Play Services”.

Depending on which apps you want/need, you may want to not de-google completely.

I basically have 4 levels of “de-googling” I suggest:

  1. Use F-Droid as main app source: All apps on F-Droid are Open Source and generally much more privacy-respecting than apps on the Google Play Store. Using apps from F-Droid unless you can’t find anything on F-Droid that suits your needs can bring you a long way.
  2. A custom ROM with Google Play Services: While not a huge difference in de-googling, this tends to be a good way to get rid of OEM bloatware. Some banking apps will already refuse to work at this level as they detect your device has been modified.
  3. A custom ROM with microG: microG is a drop-in replacement for Google Play Services. It is not bug-for-bug the same so you may have some compatibility issues with some apps, but in general you have much more control over how much Google connectivity is okay to you.
  4. A bare custom ROM: No Google Play Services, no microG. This has the lowest app compatibility but your phone won’t talk to Google aside from some core services like captive portal detection and NTP (unless your chosen ROM has changed those sources).

Reading over your comment, I think you’re saying your Sylvia Van Os of F-Droid forum and that you got the donation

Yup, that’s me. You donated to the F-Droid team in general and the donations get spread around the team members and the Liberapay system decided to send that donation to me :slight_smile:

If yes, then fine that was the intent, it’s just that I didn’t get the APK and was wondering if the donation went somewhere else.

Ah cool, I originally interpreted your post as you having accidentally donated when you just wanted to download, glad that’s not what happened.

Thanks to your replies and especially Harry with the direct link I now have the APK downloaded.

Cool! Welcome to F-Droid :slight_smile:

P.S.: I removed the screenshot with your IMEI code, IMEI is quite personal data that can be dangerous to share.

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