When I visit the f-droid website, my browser offers me to save a file with a random name. I cannot view the website at all. Any hints?

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It’s a phone app?

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On the desktop.

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Try it on your phone. F-Droid is an android app.

Also if the random file you’re getting is F-Droid.apk, that’s the file you need to install it on your phone.

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No no no. The app seems to work ok. It’s the website that seems broken.

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Is it F-droid.apk?

Can you take a screen record?

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I cant. I’m on my phone right now. Just picture a save file dialog from 3 browsers with a random string dot something as filename. I noticed on my phone the file is named something like downloads.bin.

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Actualy, downloadfile.bin.

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thats very strange

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That could be your browser saving html instead of showing it.

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The content seems html but the name is something else. On android the suggested filename is downloadfile.bin. creepy.

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Well… just saved one of those files, renamed it to file.html and opened it with the browser. Seems to be the f-droid homepage lacking the css.

What could it be? That doesn’t happen on any other website.

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On my desktop, the name is something like <random>.ptrom. Im from Portugal. Could ptrom have anything to do with it?

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Does your ISP or government interfere with your Internet access? When you view the cert, does it show that it was issued by Let’s Encrypt?

I hope not.

I can’t inspect any cert. The browser url bar doesn’t show the padlock.

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Checked on mobile, doesn’t happen for me. I’ll try on my desktop Arch setup.

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