LibreTorrent Client Kicked Out By Google Play

[upnorth]

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https://torrentfreak.com/open-source-libretorrent-client-kicked-out-by-google-play-191123/

Popular Android torrent client LibreTorrent has been removed from Google Play, who informed its developer that the open-source "Free Software" tool violated the platform's "spam policy". The developer believes this may be due to a flood of abusive cloned copies of LibreTorrent but Google doesn't seem interested in investigating further.

Broadly speaking, torrent clients come in two flavors; closed source (such as uTorrent or BitTorrent Mainline) or open-source, such as qBittorrent or BiglyBT, for example. Many experienced torrent users often favor the latter, since the code of open-source clients is not only open to scrutiny but can give others the ability to learn about or further develop software. So of course, it’s never great when something bad happens to an open-source project. Yaroslav Pronin, a student and Russia-based developer of Android torrent client LibreTorrent, is an advocate of Free Software. He informs TF that he began work on his tool in 2016 because he believed there wasn’t a “complete freedom” torrent client available for the platform. Pronin says that he was also motivated by the fact that BitTorrent has been under pressure, with sites blocked both in Russia and overseas due to copyright issues.

 

[bayasdev]

That's the only good BitTorrent client for Android, the other ones are just BS.

 

[ForgottenSeer 58943]

A lot of good tools aren't on Google anymore, and they seem to continue to be clamping down on the good ones. Also some of the better privacy tools aren't even served by Google these days.

Enter - F DROID.

LibreTorrent | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

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f-droid.org

 

[SeriousHoax]

I received an update today from PlayStore so it's back again.

 

[upnorth]

I received an update today from PlayStore so it's back again.

Confirmed. Thanks @SeriousHoax