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Why is the TOR Browser and Orbot app not available on F-Droid? (kbin.earth)

submitted 2 days ago by BubblyRomeo@kbin.earth to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 10 points 2 days 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 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Do TOR Browser and Orbot have proprietary libraries?

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 4 points 2 days ago

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