Yeah, I was confused too. Perhaps they didn’t see any problem and instead of realising the page had been edited after I commented they just downvoted.

Back to that article, I wonder if they were trying to add links into their footnotes and that broke stuff. They seemed to have fixed it by deleting them all, but that’s quite a lot of content gone.

E.g. after pairing up the broken footnotes with their endings that stayed in the main text you can see these:

How many F-Droid users are there, exactly? We don’t know, because we don’t track users or have any registration. “No user accounts, by design”: https://f-droid.org/2022/02/28/no-user-accounts-by-design.html

‘> “Sideload” is a weird euphemism that the mobile duopoly came up with; it means “installing software without our permission,” which we used to just call “installing software” (because you don’t need a manufacturer’s permission to install software on your computer).’ — Pluralistic: Darth Android: https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/01/fulu/