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  • Which developer?

    E: Lol @ the ninja edit.

    That’s hardly a meaningful advantage for f-droid and the whole man in the middle risk you’re exposing yourself to there. If you don’t trust the developer to do the bare minimum of providing a release that matches source then why are you even installing their app? Satyr’s response about developers getting compromised has way more weight in that conversation, but still falls short IMO.

    Making sure the apk matches public source and running it through VT aren’t going to catch a malicious apk that has the nasty bits buried in various commits but checks out in VT and matches the public source code. Sure, it’ll burn them as a developer if/when they get caught, but how often does the community truly do code reviews on one-off Android apps? Not often enough to catch that kinda thing before it spreads without getting insanely lucky.