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Stop. Using. Proprietary. Software.

If you don't control the software, the software controls you.

If users are disallowed from auditing the software source code easily, then this is bound to happen.

It still happens with open source software and has nothing to do with a licensing mode.

I don't remember last time I read about malicious code found on an app here: forum.f-droid.org/ Code is available, and license allow the project to distribute them.

Hardly anybody uses F-Droid, comparatively. The people that do are generally less likely to fall for simple scams.

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