It is open source but you can’t publish modified code (this is to ensure there will be no malicious forks like there was with newpipe)
plus you missed the entire point:
… app for watching online video content - not just youtube, but nebula, peertube, twitch and more.
It’s an app that allows you to watch the same creators across many platforms
It’s a police state and monitors everything on the entire internet
(One of) the worst is Australia
Jerboa, Voyager, Thunder, Liftoff, Combustible and Eternity all don’t have ads
https://exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/
it’s also in aurora store
“Free” as in price only
7 trackers and built-in ads
Insular seems similar to shelter, also on f-droid.
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Android is not developed by Google. It’s open source but Google adds a lot of stuff on top. There are ways to minimise what apps can spy on you: gboard, keep notes, calendar, calculator, gmail - all can be swapped for better and more privacy respecting apps from F-droid. You can also disable Google and other system (vendor) apps through adb. Some OSs if you don’t want to do that are Lineage OS and Calyx OS.
Infinity for Reddit and Nitter/Squawker for twitter still work though
really necessary?
no but there are some settings in about:config you might want to change
this is a good video (easier to follow if you are on linux) that shows installation of a profile with all the settings already in it
One of the best is Iceland
There isn’t really an alternetive launcher but you could download a firewall app like NetGuard and block every connection exept g.whatsapp.net
Infinity
still works though I have been getting a lot of load errors
You can help Aurora by making more accounts to combat rate limmiting
but apart from that I don’t really know how to help - almost all my apps are from F-droid
For me Aurora still kind of works, although I often get the “Rate Limmited Account” message.
You can set Aurora as the handler of Play Store links in settings, that’s not affected by rate limmiting, if that stops working just download apk files directly from websites
That’s the gallery