Oh, pardon my ignorance! I’ve had no idea these are plain archives and ZArchiver could handle them - still, I don’t get why APKPure would provide XAPKs for apps under 100 MB in size with no OBBs inside (example: Textra), other than to promote their installer.

That FMHY link is also incredibly helpful, thank you!

APKPure is no good btw. Most of the packages you get from there are in their own proprietary XAPK format, requiring you to install their extremely sketchy, filled with ads package installer to make any use of them, not to mention you probably can’t guarantee the app itself is unaltered by that point. (yes, that is for stuff APKMirror often/always has in standard APK).

I guess I could still use APKMirror with a proper adblock if I really have to (I probably would pay for that damn subscription if a) it wasn’t that expensive for something I use maybe once in two months and b) they didn’t start forcing it LIKE THIS), but, you know, all this really makes for a feel of internet literally being a dying star.

The irony is, I don’t have any. I suspect this is because I’m located in Russia where Google has disabled their ads by their own initiative (though, I’m not sure if APKMirror in particular is using AdSense or something different).

I’ve actually tried Firefox on Android a couple times and it always felt like a slow, clunky and inconsistent experience. It also had trouble rendering fonts on some of my past devices, not sure if that’s been fixed, but I really don’t mind Chrome for now.

I just really don’t want to touch APKMirror anymore because in light of YouTube trying to push their own anti-adblock, this feels like a spit in the face.

That is still better than nothing :)

I’m not sure how exactly it works in Android, but I can see internal storage being freed after I move freshly installed, never launched (so, cache size should be zero) apps to SD, so I assume it does something with apps themselves as well.

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I think I get what you mean now - to make an app movable, the developer has to set a value in AndroidManifest.xml, then the OS itself will offer an option to move that app elsewhere in app settings.

Sorry if it sounds rude, but you didn’t even read the post carefully, did you?

Isn’t that for MMS only?

Yeah, but it’s an incoming SMS? Are there still any tariffs with paid incoming messages (possibly except when roaming)?

clarification: it is sent by the network, not by the recipient’s handset, so they pay nothing for it

That is AI generated??? WOW. It’s so clean.

Nope, read the last sentence.

Mastodon is just one of the many frontends for ActivityPub, the protocol behind the whole thing. While Mastodon software indeed is written and maintained by an organization, it is nonprofit, and doesn’t have any control over the actual Mastodon instances since those are basically run by enthusiasts

Man I hate YouTube so much by this point, and had even before this anti adblock thing due to their mobile apps never working properly on any of my devices, mobile website basically made the clunkiest experience possible (to force people into using the app?) and desktop site being just so damn heavy. Would totally completely move to federated alternatives if not the 20 years of YT exclusive content that won’t ever be reuploaded elsewhere. It’s not even like a social network or a forum where you minutely talk to someone about something, get a response and then forget forever, it sadly grew a lot bigger than that

Honestly the advanced auto playlist generation features that used to be present in iTunes, a properly maintained Android app (I’m about to get an iPod touch just for Apple Music, because the Android version is super buggy and keeps getting worse), and public profiles for all countries.