F-Android compare to Google Play Store

[azuredragon3000]

hello all
i am new.
i have one question related to F-Android and Google play Store.
is F-Android working same as Google Play as i want to update 1 app to F-Android and earn money with ads click from those apps ? someone recommended F-Android as other store Android which same Google Play

[JohnFai]

Hello, welcome to the F-Droid community. F-Droid is somewhere for FOSS meaning Free Open Source Software. As the name suggests, every app in this store is free and open source (you can see how the apps work and modify yourself). Another special thing of it is that the apps have no ads and trackers (unless some with the warning tags).

@azuredragon3000

someone recommended F-Android as other store Android which same Google Play

However, I don’t think it can be compared to Play Store as F-Droid wins in every aspect. For you, you are concerned on the ads which there aren’t here, but the more obvious and what we like here is that it the apps hosted here have no trackers.

You can check here for my article about it.

Reasons for caring your privacy and joining fdroid

1. Pre-reading I’m quite curious on how many people are relying on big tech companies such as Google and Facebook when reading this post. Would you mind spending a second on the poll please? poll 2. Introduction People using F-Droid has mostly quit using Google or other big comapanies such as Facebook. When it comes to persuading others, it is quite hard to convince them the importance of privacy. Some even say I’m not famous, why should I care? So what? What can they do wi…

@azuredragon3000

is F-Android working same as Google Play as i want to update 1 app to F-Android and earn money with ads click from those apps

No it doesn’t. As far as I am concerned, F-Droid only works on donations and without ads because we care about privacy, not money!

[azuredragon3000]

thanks JohnFai for the answered.

[anon46495926]

@JohnFai

As far as I am concerned, F-Droid only works on donations and without ads because we care about privacy, not money!

Is anyone here besides @grothoff working on, or have hopes for, gnu taler as a way to have non-tracked (digital cash) sales of free/libre software? The donations model seems not “sustainable” or less than super successful.