covid-alert-app VS blokada

Which app are you talking about? If you're referring to the national COVID Alert app, it was open source. If you're referring to the system APIs that were provided by iOS and Play Services, then of course they were not open source, but they did have very, very thorough white papers, and they were not developed by the government.

Reddit is literally filled with developers and this is the most tech illiterate thread I’ve come across. The app is a public repo

It's open source, here's the hit repository: https://github.com/cds-snc/covid-alert-app

If you're curious, the source code is here: App: https://github.com/cds-snc/covid-alert-app Server: https://github.com/cds-snc/covid-alert-server

The basic setup is pretty solid for privacy. You can, if you're really paranoid, build the app from scratch because the source is right here. Doing it that way will get around any concerns they backdoor the prebuilt app with something nefarious.

It was developed by CDS. It’s open source too.

The apps themselves in Canada at least are open source (server) and have been peer reviewed by third parties and anybody in the community who was interested, a few things were fixed that way. I can not comment on other countries.

You can read about Blokada here https://blokada.org/ and their v6 will also be in your App/Playstore but as said is subscription only. Lucky Android users can keep scrolling down until you see v5 offered which is completely free (not in Playstore btw). Unfortunately v5 isn't available for iOS. It works though, you won't see another, just a blackout timer that runs for 35 seconds (which does also mean you wait 35 seconds for the few ads that only runs for 15 seconds).

But it's due to game? Or is it Vivo thing? Can you try with https://blokada.org (blocking ads system-wide trough DNS)?

here try this https://blokada.org/

If you use the Firefox browser with the uBlock Origins extension, it blocks almost every ad. I use the Samsung Internet browser with Blokada 5 and it's a nearly ad-free experience.

blokada.org

For those on Android, download Blokada 5. It's a free open-source systemwide adblocker app. Don't download Blokada 6 on the Play Store. It's a subscription cloud-based app. Google doesn't allow VPN-based adblocker apps in the Play Store. If you have a Samsung phone, Blokada 5 is in the Galaxy Store.