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Anyone had their signal app want to auto update from itself rather than an app store? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) by OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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My signal app a week ago had 2 seperate, a few days apart, app updates from the app itself. Asking to check install from unknown sources to be checked inside the settings. Giving prompts from the notification drop down. Such as app update available. Click it, asked for setting to be checked, I checked it, it said it updated, all seems well and fine.

But doing this outside of both stores which usually update the app from say F droid or Aurora. I've never seen this happen ever. It wasn't a user confirmation. It was a total app update.

Seems odd that the signal app itself asked to update itself from a notification from the drop down menu. How can I make sure it has not been compromised? Anyone else experienced something of the sort?

Android phone. Pixel. Gos.

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[–] 3aqn5k6ryk@lemmy.world 8 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Signal is not distributed outside Play store and signal own website. If you downloaded from F-droid, its probably from Guardian repo.

If you download it from play store, signal will update through play store. If you download it from signal, it will update through itself. If you download it Guardian repo, it's basically the same downloading from signal website, it will update it self.

The thing you can do is just basically turn off the update notification and just update it from guardian repo. Or just disable the guardian repo and let the signal update itself.

[–] OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 hours ago

This sounds like the answer. The app updates from guardian repo. I will change the update path. Say the app had well something malicious injected would a new update flush the old app and in with the brand new?