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Note that Signal supports Google-free itself now - I'm running it on AOSP without Google Play.

It may now support working on devices without Play Services, but being the same apk, Google's libraries are still inside the app. This way it's not entirely free and doesn't fit F-Droid's inclusion policy. (https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Inclusion_Policy/)

Ah, I did not know that - thanks for clarifying. Does that mean that library code is still executed, or is it just "there"?

(Oh, and worth noting: it has an integrated update checker, so not being in F-Droid is less of a problem.)

I'm not sure, maybe it is worth checking the source code.

An update checker is nice though! I wish firefox had one, but at least there's FFUpdater.

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