I was one of the members to file a bug since an update on F-droid to Blokada 5(v22.3.8) starting popping messages saying “Private DNS was set” even though that setting wasn’t enabled on the phone. The community manager or Blokada team member posted on the press section saying it was not a “reliable”…

Hi, we already checked the apk shared and there was no malicious activity there. Many websites share the Blokada apk without our approval, we are still investigating how we could delete the version there or at least replace it with orginal version. The purpose of the announcement was to let everyb…

Good to know it was harmless. Thanks! Could you explain how the F Droid distribution works? Is the blokada team behind the F Droid releases? How could an update be released without blokada team’s consent?

I agree with argus here. Blokada used to distribute via F-Droid themselves and even was involved in discussions regarding wanted or unwanted features inside the software. So it used to be a distribution mode that blokada itself was using. It is therefore highly unlikely that a third party used your …

[image] F-Droid updates? Support Hello, Unfortunately we stopped maintaining the F-Droid updates because of some troubles with their processes: Our own F-Droid repository is an alternative if it becomes a popular request. At the moment, we recommend downloading direct…

One more reason to provide your own F-Droid repo or an in App Updater or at least a notification if there is a new update. I and I think many users will find it tedious to manually check for updates. App Stores make sense as the updates are available timely and automatically. However not everbody w…

[image] danielp: at least a notification if there is a new update. that´s happening already with the website version. F-droid has been deprecated for the time being until we´ve either started our own repo or moved away from it completely.

Thanks, I am going to try the website build. Although I still would prefer a F-Droid repository. Edit: Wait Blokada 6 is only available on G Play!?

[image] argus: How can a third party issue an update on their behalf on F-droid? This was a bit unexpected for me as well. Here you can see the change that was made on F-droid: blokada: 22.3.8 (f325ad20) · Commits · F-Droid / Data · GitLab It appears nothing malicious was embedded in this r…

[image] argus: How could an update be released without blokada team’s consent? Why not? Blokada is Open Source (MPL) isn’t it? Without reading through all the license I don’t think it would be a problem for me to distribute it in binary form (meaning providing the apk). This is how it works. …

Can Blokada confirm is the suspicious release from F-Droid wasn't dangerous?

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Can Blokada confirm is the suspicious release from F-Droid wasn't dangerous?

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