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Due to "anti-features" introduced unilaterally by some people from FDroid community, it is not possible to find Organic Maps using the search in FDroid client without tinkering with its settings first: gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-

By default, it is possible to find apps with ads, with tracking, with non-free network services, dependencies and assets, apps without source code and with known vulnerabilities. But it is not possible to find Organic Maps, an open-source app without ads and tracking.

@organicmaps yes, our communication about this change was not ideal.

We tried to cover it in f-droid.org/2024/07/25/twif.ht and f-droid.org/2024/04/04/twif.ht, but apparently it wasn't read by everybody (surprise, surprise 🙈).

Unfortunately, we didn't find any good technical solution to enable the new Anti-Feature automatically (but only for those, who didn't change their AFs manually).

Moreover, this new AF was designed to clearly differentiate, that apps like OM are NOT NonFreeNet, but only TetheredNet.

f-droid.orgThe anti-feature you've asked for | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App RepositoryThis Week in F-DroidTWIF curated on Thursday, 25 Jul 2024, Week 30F-Droid coreRecently, we rolled out a new AntiFeature - Tethered Network Services. It’s int...
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@fdroidorg @organicmaps This is intended as constructive criticism.

I think @ck and @cy8aer have a point. For instance, Libretrack has the non-free network tag. I gather this is because the app talks to UPS servers etc.? But how else is it supposed to get the info about the package? Telepathy?

And if that's not the reason, the fact that I have to wonder, search through gitlab, read the code or do some mind reading shows that the "network" anti-features are now mostly confusing to users.