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@foss In reference to this post- https://lemmy.ml/post/6374732

For Molly, I kept seeing this popup by Google when downloading Molly FOSS from fdroid.

Should I be concerned? What should I do to ensure I am downloading Molly from a trusted source if Fdroid isn't an ideal place (due to misleading names as depicted in the referenced post)?

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[โ€“] otter@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Play Protect gives a lot of false positive warnings for me, and I usually just ignore them

FDroid is one of the safest, but you may need to go into settings -> repositories to check which repos are being used. What is checked off when you do that?

[โ€“] brie 6 points 1 year ago

The repo a specific app comes from can also be checked by opening the list of versions, then clicking on one of the versions to show the details.