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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 26 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Interesting, I do wish that flathub was more like F-droid. F-droid lists anti features and allows you to easily hide software that has anti features you don't like.

[–] Sentau@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Flathub does provide this warning like system.

I don't think we can filter using these though

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)
[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

https://f-droid.org/docs/Anti-Features/

Features that harm the user. Examples include telemetry and non-free libraries.

[–] SuperSynthia@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Features that are not so great: “This app redirects to data gathering services” stuff like that