数字市场法（DMA）是“让数字市场更公平和更可竞争的欧盟法律”。 F-Droid强烈站队许多DMA的确保用户选择和隐私权的想法。比如： DMA有规定，确保第三方应用软件或者第三方应用软件商店能被使用：F-Droid长期以来是关心自由软件的用户们在Google Play商店之外安装应用的首选。 DMA限制看门人处理个人数据的方式：F-Droid甚至都没有账户系统。我们完全不跟踪用户。没任何个人数据需要处理。 最近呢，谷歌引入了新的开发者验证政策，和DMA相悖。该政策要求：即使一个app根本不通过Play Store安装，开发者也得向谷歌验证自己才能让app能够安装上。尽管这听起来仅仅影响app开发者，但其绝对影响最终用户的选择和自由，以一种DMA精神不具有的有害方式。 谷歌可能会争辩，说该政策是严格必要和适当的，来确保第三方软件或者应用商店不危害谷歌提供的硬件或操作系统完整性 (Article 6.4)。 这显然是假的。 信任不是通过认证开发者的法定身份来取得的。根本无法验证在Google Play发布的app有害与否，无论开发者的身份是否被谷歌认证。 信任是通过透明度取得。F-Droid用户能够验证他们要安装的app的源代码的确定性。 F-Droid从源代码构建自由软件并分发给用户，无需谷歌，这是多数Linux发行版数十年分发软件的方式。这种分发机制已经经受了时间的考验，被认为极端安全和可信，并且被全球多数现代计算机基础设施使用。 没人会说Linux发行版们需要有一个中央当局来验证app开发者才能更加安全。移动操作系统也不例外。

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Friday, 19 Sep 2025, Week 38 Community News aFreeRDP was updated to 3.17.1 but you should skip this update since it keeps on crashing. A fixed update is being tested right now, stay tuned! Element X - Secure Chat & Call was updated...

At the beginning of summer, the European Commission held a series of “DMA 2025 compliance workshops” to let the public post questions to the “gatekeepers” as designed under the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA). Apple App Store, Google Play, Google Maps and Android are all designated as gatekeepers by the...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 11 Sep 2025, Week 37 Community News Nine projects will receive grants within the NGI Mobifree and NGI Fediversity pilot programmes. Scroll the list, you might find one of your favorite. The EU currently has yet another public consultation (request for feedback...

When a legal takedown request arrives, whether it’s about copyright, censorship, privacy or something more vague, how a Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) project responds can make all the difference. Handled well, a takedown request can be a manageable administrative step. Handled poorly, it can cause panic, disrupt infrastructure...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 04 Sep 2025, Week 36 F-Droid core Given these past weeks events we got sidetracked into caring more about CPU architectures, web servers certificates and APK signatures. We need not lose track of our goals, and these are not short timed, and...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 28 Aug 2025, Week 35 F-Droid core F-Droid’s push for decentralization means not only having multiple repos, but also clients and mirrors. Since 2017 the Client has been able to use mirrors and share the load between mirrors and main server so...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 21 Aug 2025, Week 34 Community News The Matrix ecosystem fixed some major bugs that affected servers and clients too. The CVE level issues were announced back in July but things were intentionally kept vague while developers worked hard on yet another...