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Re: Best 1:1 google app replacements with privacy & functionality

From Marion <marion@facts.com>
Newsgroups comp.mobile.android
Subject Re: Best 1:1 google app replacements with privacy & functionality
Date 2025-09-06 18:07 +0000
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On Sat, 6 Sep 2025 15:15:38 +0200, Arno Welzel wrote :


>> b. Updates aren't what people think they are
> 
> They are. But people don't realize, that an update can also *remove*
> features and not only bring new stuff.

Hi Arno,

You bring up a good point that updates can remove stuff.
And they can add advertisements. 
And they can even have ownership changes in them, such as these:
 <https://tinyurl.com/nova-launcher> last known good version
 <https://tinyurl.com/pulsesms> last known good version

App updates are a crap shoot.

Everyone assumes what they do, and they intuit what the result is.
But when you *test* the app updaters, they don't do what you think.

Having tested them myself, I will strongly state that anyone, yes, even
you, who "thinks", they know how they work, almost certainly does not.

For example, the Google Play Store update GUI updates almost nothing.
Don't believe me?

Try it.

a. Run a survey of every app and every version on your phone
b. Compare that to what's available on the Google Play Store repo
c. Then run the updater

Some of them work the way people intuit that they "should" work.
But not the Google Play Store updater.

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Best 1:1 google app replacements with privacy & functionality Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-22 20:07 +0000
  Re: Best 1:1 google app replacements with privacy & functionality Jim Jackson <jj@franjam.org.uk> - 2025-08-22 21:29 +0000
    Re: Best 1:1 google app replacements with privacy & functionality Martin Schöön <martin.schoon@gmail.com> - 2025-09-05 07:02 +0000
      Re: Best 1:1 google app replacements with privacy & functionality Martin Schöön <martin.schoon@gmail.com> - 2025-09-05 15:52 +0000
        Re: Best 1:1 google app replacements with privacy & functionality Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-09-05 18:28 +0000
          Re: Best 1:1 google app replacements with privacy & functionality "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-09-05 20:50 +0200
  Re: Best 1:1 google app replacements with privacy & functionality Qihe <Q@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-23 01:04 +0200
    Re: Best 1:1 google app replacements with privacy & functionality Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-23 02:28 +0000
      Re: Best 1:1 google app replacements with privacy & functionality Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-23 09:26 +0000
        Re: Best 1:1 google app replacements with privacy & functionality Qihe <Q@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-23 12:37 +0200
          Re: Best 1:1 google app replacements with privacy & functionality Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-23 16:49 +0000
            Re: Best 1:1 google app replacements with privacy & functionality Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-23 17:55 +0000
      Re: Best 1:1 google app replacements with privacy & functionality Qihe <Q@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-23 13:30 +0200
        Re: Best 1:1 google app replacements with privacy & functionality Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-24 03:50 +0000
          Re: Best 1:1 google app replacements with privacy & functionality Qihe <Q@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-26 01:43 +0200
            Re: Best 1:1 google app replacements with privacy & functionality Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-26 03:42 +0000
    Re: Best 1:1 google app replacements with privacy & functionality Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2025-08-26 13:07 +0200
  Re: Best 1:1 google app replacements with privacy & functionality "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2025-08-23 19:39 +0200
    Re: Best 1:1 google app replacements with privacy & functionality Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-24 03:28 +0000
      Re: Best 1:1 google app replacements with privacy & functionality Jeff Layman <Jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-24 08:39 +0100
  Re: Best 1:1 google app replacements with privacy & functionality Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2025-08-26 13:06 +0200
    Re: Best 1:1 google app replacements with privacy & functionality Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-27 05:28 +0000
      Re: Best 1:1 google app replacements with privacy & functionality Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2025-08-29 18:51 +0200
        Re: Best 1:1 google app replacements with privacy & functionality Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-31 10:35 +0000
          Re: Best 1:1 google app replacements with privacy & functionality Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2025-09-01 10:48 +0200
            Re: Best 1:1 google app replacements with privacy & functionality Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-09-01 16:24 +0000
              Re: Best 1:1 google app replacements with privacy & functionality Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2025-09-06 15:15 +0200
                Re: Best 1:1 google app replacements with privacy & functionality Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-09-06 18:07 +0000
    Re: Best 1:1 google app replacements with privacy & functionality Qihe <Q@invalid.invalid> - 2025-09-01 16:05 +0200
      Re: Best 1:1 google app replacements with privacy & functionality Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2025-09-01 15:27 +0100
        Re: Best 1:1 google app replacements with privacy & functionality Qihe <Q@invalid.invalid> - 2025-09-01 16:44 +0200
  Re: Best 1:1 google app replacements with privacy & functionality Qihe <Q@invalid.invalid> - 2025-09-01 16:14 +0200
  Re: Best 1:1 google app replacements with privacy & functionality Martin Schöön <martin.schoon@gmail.com> - 2025-09-02 08:09 +0000
    Re: Best 1:1 google app replacements with privacy & functionality Qihe <Q@invalid.invalid> - 2025-09-02 12:13 +0200
    Re: Best 1:1 google app replacements with privacy & functionality Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-09-02 15:46 +0000

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