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Originally I've download the signal app through playstore, but often it also get updates from Droid-ify(Fdroid client). Today its weird and I got this . Explain to me this.

On the Droid-ify the signal app is provided by: org.thoughtcrimes.securesms

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

org.thoughtcrimes.securesms

It actually might not be, googling "org.thoughtcrimes.securesms" doesn't get results.

thoughtcrimes vs. thoughtcrime


My question though is how this popped up in droidify, would someone need to manually add some special repo?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I missed that, thanks for pointing it out. The one without S is the correct one.

But that makes me wonder, how did OP not end up with two signal apps then?

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

how did OP not end up with two signal apps then?

by that popup blocking him from installing the wrong one?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, that's from the installer and not one of those warnings you get after opening apps. Makes sense.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Technically it's from "Google Play Protect" that got triggered during the install but yeah.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yes, where is that from? Its not in the repos I use.