“Seal downloader” from the Playstore and “Seal” from F-Droid are 2 very different apps. One is a a clone riddled with ads, the other one is FOSS goodness. You are free to guess which is which.

I was very interested in the thumbnail of this post so I did a little digging and found this: The PDF to the Paper where the whole picture is

That would be “accepting the premise of assholes” as Louis Rossman would say.

Grayjay is also a option if you want to avoid the ads. Eddit* spelling changed from Gayjay to Grayjay

Wild theory: could it have been malicious compliance? Maybe the dev got a written notice to do it that way from some incompetent manager.

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That sounds quite intriguing, I’ll shop around and give you an update!