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Apps (apks) must be signed before uploading to distribution sites like play store or f-droid. Some devs are signing their app releases with different keys, because for example the google play version of the app has to contain stuff they don’t include in f-droid versions. These are mostly privacy related things, google does not allow in their play store. In case of bitwarden the two versions are most probably the same and they’re signed with the same key. So if there’s an update in either of the two distribution sites it will show you, that there’s an update. Now I use Aurora Store instead of play store for apps that are not available in F-Droid and you can blacklist apps there, so I only get updates from F-Droid.

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LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
So are you saying that the Google Play version of an app is likely to have more privacy than the F-Droid version?

Also, I’ve noticed the F-Droid filter on Aurora Store is broken. All of my F-Droid apps still appear in my list of updates.

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- varaki@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  
  the Google Play version of an app is likely to have more privacy than the F-Droid version? No, the opposite
  
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- merde@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  fDroid filter works for me 🤷
  
  you can put the apps you want ignored in the black list of Aurora too
  
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  - LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    
    Blacklist apps: By blacklisting apps, Google will not know that the selected apps are installed on your device
    
    I think blacklisting only hides the apps from Google, not Aurora
    
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    merde@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    then when you blacklist apps, aurora no longer searches for their updates either 🤷
    
    try it for yourself. next time there is an update for an app; instead of updating, blacklist it. (you can always undo
    
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