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SchildiChat / SchildiChat-android

Matrix client / Element Android fork
https://schildi.chat/android/
Apache License 2.0
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Anti-Features ? #130

Closed caywin25 closed 2 years ago

caywin25 commented 2 years ago

Hello,

On fdroid page : https://f-droid.org/packages/de.spiritcroc.riotx/ we can see this message in bottom of page : 

Anti-Features
This app has features you may not like. Learn more!

This app promotes or depends entirely on a non-free network service

What are these anti functions, please? What does that mean? Thank you

SpiritCroc commented 2 years ago

This comes from Element's "Integration manager" implementation. Since this integration manager is currently hardcoded to https://scalar.vector.im, which is closed source and thus cannot be self-hosted right now, this leads to said anti-feature. I'm not really happy with that approach either. However, that feature should be off by default, so shouldn't cause any privacy issues while off.

For reference: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/merge_requests/11142

caywin25 commented 2 years ago

Perfect, thank you :ok_hand:

shuvashish76 commented 11 months ago

I'm not really happy with that approach either.

https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/issues/3048

SchildiChat @SpiritCroc Disabled by default which is nice. Would be nice if you mention that "⚠️This service is proprietary." or something similar in the description for transparency because we don't expect users to search GH issue tracker for that.

One F-Droid maintainer said

Sylvia: I myself definitely thought the Integration Manager was FOSS until someone told me it wasn't and I had to search for hours to find an obscure comment on a random issue stating that, yes, it's proprietary.

SpiritCroc commented 11 months ago

Good idea, done in https://github.com/SchildiChat/SchildiChat-android/commit/16ccd7817f20a86042a21dba6d9a0766d6781a8e :+1:

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