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So I went to F-Droid to download TOR Browser and Orbot app and I found them currently missing from the F-Droid catalog. Did something happen that I'm currently out of the loop?

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[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 15 points 13 hours ago (5 children)

They are on the Guardian Project repository which is no longer in the fdroid app by default to the best of my understanding. So you have to go at it yourself.

Also, orbot is shit, use inviZible to stay updated with the latest tor daemon releases

[–] BubblyRomeo@kbin.earth 5 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

They are on the Guardian Project repository which is no longer in the fdroid app by default to the best of my understanding.

Why and when did this happen?

Also, orbot is shit, use inviZible to stay updated with the latest tor daemon releases

Thanks!

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 9 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Guardian Project remains committed to producing free software. But for some of our key use cases, it is unfortunately not yet possible to address them without including some proprietary libraries in our free software apps. This means that the Guardian Project repository is no longer included in F-Droid by default.

[–] monovergent@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Do TOR Browser and Orbot have proprietary libraries?

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 4 points 11 hours ago

I provided a synopsis, click the link if you want more details.

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