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wojon The question would be if the github version has the same feature set. I might be wrong here, but to my understanding the github version is the non-pro version. So in the end you have to make a decision. Go with pro and take it from F-Droid, build yourself, or go with non-pro directly from the maintainer. How do you chose here? ;)
I have the pro version from GitHub. The FOSS release is the Pro one on the release page and you also get free access to their Thankyou app to unlock the features it does across their apps.
wojon F-Droid is patching out trackers
They use exodus and their scanning is not accurate. It completely misrepresents the permission model. The checks for 'trackers' is really just a list a blacklisted third party libraries which they've fairly arbitrarily decided are privacy invasive. Doesn't check for anything else. It's misleading.
Their apps often due to their practices end up horrendously outated. Take Element for Matrix for example. https://nitter.net/Metr0pl3x/status/1575250126574129178
Using F-Droid and a developer maintained repo is fine but relying on F-Droid has all the issues outlined.
As GrapheneOS doesn't compromise the standard of security/privacy, it is only right that the advice we offer aligns with that.
What individual users can/will choose to do is entirely their prerogative.