I installed Bitwarden from F-Droid, but I happened to notice yesterday that Bitwarden was in my list of apps with updates available from Play Store, even though I installed it via F-Droid. Why would that be?

I know this is a better question for the Bitwarden forums, but I don’t have enough street cred there to make a post.

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      2 years ago

      So are you saying that the Google Play version of an app is likely to have more privacy than the F-Droid version?

      Also, I’ve noticed the F-Droid filter on Aurora Store is broken. All of my F-Droid apps still appear in my list of updates.

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        2 years ago

        fDroid filter works for me 🤷

        you can put the apps you want ignored in the black list of Aurora too

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          2 years ago

          Blacklist apps: By blacklisting apps, Google will not know that the selected apps are installed on your device

          I think blacklisting only hides the apps from Google, not Aurora

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            2 years ago

            then when you blacklist apps, aurora no longer searches for their updates either 🤷

            try it for yourself. next time there is an update for an app; instead of updating, blacklist it. (you can always undo