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These days there are so many apps infested with spyware or adware, and it almost seems as if the stores themselves are promoting them in exchange for a cut. And some apps that start off clean get "updated" to include ads and spying. How do you find free apps that aren't infested?
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Anyone can make an omelet with eggs. The trick is to make one with none.
(Score: 2) by jmorris on Saturday June 06 2015, @06:20PM
Browser based apps would work equally well for most of the cases you cite, notification is a solved problem too. Your phone already has a connection to Google's messaging service along with something called A MOBILE PHONE. No, the 'app' world mostly exists because they want to put the other crap on your phone and be able to run it 24/7.
We learned an important lesson with apps, put a check off box in the development environment saying "Do you want money?" and people check the box, explaining why there is almost no Free Software on mobile platforms. When it was Free Software or found a software company a lot of people would just let it go. Especially in an environment where almost all of the competing apps are equally infested and there is no easy way to even find the one lone holdout that isn't. We have to start agitating for the Big G to clearly mark the anti-features as clearly as F-Droid does. (Forget the fruit store, anybody there already agreed they like throwing money at crap.)