We're starting to implement support for split APKs in #FDroid. #Google wants to gather as much data about its users as possible, so trying to hide info about language, country, device specs was not a design concern for them. It is central for us. We want the official client to leak as little data as possible to any server, be it ours, mirrors, or custom repos. We welcome input:
@eighthave The privacy questions do look tricky here. Downloading the split you want plus some random number of additional randomly chosen ones is my first thought but to be honest I'm not too sure how best to approach the tradeoffs.