outline-apps

Yes, that's because they deeply care about what is allowed in the store. F-Droid had "privacy labels" before Apple did [0]. They do scan/review [1] submitted apps for spyware, to the extent they can with the tools available to them [2]. Often times, F-Droid volunteers go out of their way and help developers publish apps to F-Droid [3]. Besides, in my experience, once you've setup the distribution, F-Droid pretty much auto-builds and auto-publishes the updates forever, until unless the builds fail or their automated review process detects something untoward. I'd say F-Droid is pretty cool in practice too. [0] https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Anti-Features/ [1] Ex, see this review for an app I submitted: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/merge_requests/8605 [2] https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/issues/2289 [3] Ex, here's F-Droid mainta

Another option is Outline VPN, Jigsaw/Google's open source implementation of Shadowsocks: https://getoutline.org https://github.com/Jigsaw-Code/outline-client https://github.com/Jigsaw-Code/outline-server Shadowsocks is more resistant to censorship from adverse actors (such as the Great Firewall) than OpenVPN. Outline's user experience is the best I've seen among self-hosted VPN solutions, as it includes apps for both the server and the client. The server app is suitable for use in organizations, and can manage VPN profiles for multiple individuals.

The claim is bogus. The outline is a just wrapper of shadowsocks, an open source SOCKS5 proxy tool developed since 2012. However, the outline in its current form may indeed have certain license issue. https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks-libev/issues/1991 https://github.com/Jigsaw-Code/outline-client/issues/14