Blokada 5 not found on F-Droid any more
KopfKrieg opened this issue · comments
Until a few months ago Blokada 5 could be found on F-Droid, using this link: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.blokada.fem.fdroid/
Unfortunately, the link doesn't work anymore, and I can't even find any references to it in the f-droid repo.
Anyone here knows why it's been removed? Or could it be reactivated?!
Thanks for reporting this. Sadly we do not maintain the f-droid listing anymore and don't have plans to do so. Blokada is open source so anyone is free to fork it and adapt if necessary. We recommend you to download the latest version from our website https://blokada.org/.
I was just confused about this and after some digging in relevant links:
https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/issues/2796
https://community.blokada.org/t/f-droid-update-is-not-reliable/26701/14
https://community.blokada.org/t/regarding-recent-f-droid-situation/13306
It's somewhat sad that it ended like that. One will have to look for alternative on f-droid I guess...
Even worse: If a user has installed Blokada from F-Droid in the past, he will lose all of his exceptions if he uninstalls this version and reinstalls it from blokada.org. It's kind of absurd: An app supporting privacy drops its support for the most privacy-friendly app store. Please think over this decision.
The cycling cat
And there goes my half an hour searching for this app...
After searching on F-Droid & wondering what I was doing wrong, had to remember this app's name, then look it up on GitHub and manually search & find this issue.
It would really help, if this information were more accessible!