Difference between Privacy Guides Verified Apps and AppVerifier BG?

Wonderful breakdown of the situation.

I would just add that initially I had only wanted to add some features upstream [1] [2] which is why my branch isn’t called main or master. It was just the product of merging branches I had created individually for upstream PRs.

privacy.slouchy:

Maybe they’ll be competing tools & we’ll reap the benefits of free-market competition

I personally don’t see our apps as being in any sort of competition. While the tools offer something similar, our scope is different. Verified Apps is designed to be maximally trustworthy through simplicity whereas my app is more focused on providing additional tools and options, since database verification alone is limited.

I also try and contribute as much as I can to the Privacy Guides side of things, whether its via hash submissions or my own ideas for how the process could expand.

My hope is that others in the privacy and security community are inspired by the Privacy Guides team’s efforts and contribute to Verified Apps or create their own niche databases so that coverage of trusted verified databases can grow.