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Why proton mail and proton drive not on fdroid? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 21 hours ago by Stomata@sh.itjust.works to c/fdroid@lemmy.ml
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[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 38 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (13 children)

The issue for Proton Mail inclusion is here: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/rfp/-/issues/1323

TL;DR: It uses proprietary components (Google Mobile Services and Google Firebase).

[–] Stomata@sh.itjust.works 6 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

So it's making those Google firebase DNS requests.

[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 hours ago

yes but netGuard blocks them :)

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