Is it safer to download app from official fdroid repo or same as downloading direct from github?

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I am confuse about from were to download app, my priority is safety and privacy.
Pls provide some guidence
This all happen after reading this
https://wonderfall.dev/fdroid-issues/

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Define safety from what?

What’s privacy to you?

Developers build and sign and publish on Github.

F-Droid builds and signs and publishes on F-Droid

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https://wonderfall.dev/fdroid-issues/ sir pls read this
All this confusion started after reading it
Also downloading from github do not insure safety that the app made by using the same source

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why ?

That’s true

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Anyway, pls read What are the issues fdroid have about security?

And Privacy On Phone

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Are the apps downloaded from here free of malicious software, Spyware or virus? If this has happened to you detailed message on your experience and the app

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Who knows, amirite? :slight_smile:

But, you can see the source code, you can build it yourself… :person_shrugging:

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Oh, and the effort to make an app, have it FLOSS, maintain it, pass the inclusion tests, etc are rather hard(er) steps to take when you want a quick buck via malware