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# [If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck](https://blog.rethinkdns.com/if-it-looks-like-a-duck-swims-like-a-duck-and-quacks-like-a-duck-then-it-probably-is-a-duck?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

When F-Droid has you by the balls, or some such.

May 13, 2021 · 8 min read · blog.rethinkdns.com  
Updated May 17, 2021  
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## Written by

[Murtaza](https://hashnode.com/@mz)

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these aren't the droids you signed up for

## Responses 1

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[murdery](https://hashnode.com/@murdering)

[Mar 28, 2025](https://hashnode.com/posts/if-it-looks-like-a-duck-swims-like-a-duck-and-quacks-like-a-duck-then-it-probably-is-a-duck/609d3b0d47373d4cb0561223/comment/67e696bb0ed51c16d2d7e3d2)

F-droid is anything but objective. Admin rants about ideology divorced from reality as basis to filter submissions. It's downhill from there.

Thanks for all the fish. I gave up building my own adblocking cloud dns after the one-person price tag.