Nice recommendation of F-Droid https://www.wired.com/story/android-users-to-avoid-malware-ditch-googles-app-store/ by Yale Privacy Lab researchers closing with:
Installing F-Droid isn’t a silver bullet, but it’s the first step in protecting yourself from malware. With this small change, you’ll even have bragging rights with your friends with iPhones, who are limited to Apple’s App Store unless they jailbreak their phones.But why debate iPhone vs. Android, Apple vs. Google, anyway? Your privacy and security are massively more important than brand allegiance. Let’s debate digital freedom and servitude, free and unfree, private and spied-upon.
Probably related https://f-droid.org/en/2017/12/14/new-collaborations-on-exposing-tracking.html found at https://privacylab.yale.edu/press ... note recommendation of fediverse in the sidebar!