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    2 years ago

    This is a bummer. I actually used Aurora to download my paid apps. I would buy on the website and login on my degoogled phone. Now degoogled users will have to just pirate apps they want. So much for supporting small developers.

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        2 years ago

        F-Droid is where I get 90% of the applications I need however banking and public transit apps are almost never open source. Once in a while I will buy a game or app that is developed does something that I can’t get from the community.

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          Always annoy your local infrastructure IT devs! It cant be that all these apps dont even have an FDroid repo. They can ship any binary they want its just if they actually want it!

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        2 years ago

        You need other apps.

        • banking
        • public transport
        • weird stuff
        • vinted
        • spotify
        • some random good but not FOSS apps
        • paid apps (which should actually not be a problem)
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          @Pantherina no, no you don’t. I will say I have been flaburgassted by the number of people on our free and federated network that advertise their love for the freedom denying survailance capitalist “service” of spotify. #FunkWhale4ever

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            No you dont but you have no social life in that case. People sharing playlists with you, looking up music quickly… personally I dont need it, but its a bubble poorly

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              You can still freely access the playlists on https://open.spotify.com/ without an account. And Newpipe has a share function for local playlists. You won’t be missing on a lot, just don’t fall for the consumerist trap and break the social boundaries.

              Edit: You can also access banking services from their respective website. Don’t give them power over you by downloading their apps.

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                2 years ago

                Didnt know that! Thats cool.

                Banking TAN apps are nessecary if you somehow want to use your phone and not a weird card reader. The app itself is just comfortable

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              @Pantherina I’ve honestly never even heard of sharing playlists through freedom denying proprietary surveillance capitalist software like that. I understand the necessity when sharing personal files, like on #Funkwhale, but I certainly wouldn’t call that a social interaction, let alone a significant portion of one’s social life. Mind explaining it to this old guy?

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                2 years ago

                I dont listen to much music. I dont have Gigabytes of music. No real idea how to discover new music of various genres.

                So if people share playlists atleast I need to download the songs. I almost never use that app, but anyways.