I have switched everything to privacy alternatives is it safe to delete my Google account or is it needed for some android features also if I delete my account does Google delete all my data if not, can I request the deletion of my data under the GDPR
I see, that’s fair. Personally I trust f-droid more. also I was surprised to notice recently that obtanium just added a china specific app source that is default enabled in the search menu. that store is not really known in the global android community.
I don’t think adding a Chinese source is necessarily bad, what if they have users in china that want local apps?
that’s not the point. but that they added a generally unknown app source that’s
I mean you could choose not to use the source
that’s right, but it’s enabled by default, and as a result it will affect lots of users who did not think about this. that’s the power of defaults.
What do you mean? In Obtainium you pick the source you want, it doesn’t automatically choose anything
on my phone the vivo app store source is enabled by default in the search menu. compared to your screenshot, all but gitlab is been pre-selected. some of them may be how I set it up some time ago, but before I updated it a few days ago the vivo app store option was not there, and on friends phones I have seen it in the last months too that this source is enabled right after installing obtanium