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Element has been removed from the play store (twitter.com)

submitted 4 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Google have suspended Element in the Play Store without notifying us; we're reaching out to find out what's going on. Apologies for the inconvenience; in the interim there's https://f-droid.org/en/packages/im.vector.app/ but it's a few versions behind. We'll post updates here.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago (1 children)

There's also a Progressive web app frontend if you use a supporting browser if you're looking for a lightweight option for messaging, hopefully this means they roll their own Fdroid repo going forward.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago (1 children)

A web frontend for an end to end encrypted messaging service is a bit of a joke.

End to end encryption is worthless if the server can update the code you are running at anytime without you being made aware of it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago)

It was mainly based around seeing people not wanting to use the Fdroid repos/version on a Mastodon thread - for whatever reason being a few builds behind seemed like it was worse than not using the service at all, in case anyone was like that here I thought it worthwhile to share (Edit: especially if encryption is not on their priority list and they just wanted a quick way to login).

I have a mixed view on Matrix in general but agree with your assesment of the web portal.