F-Droid probably won't accept any builds with adware/tracking in them, so probably we'll just stay on an old version until a fork or alternative comes along.
There's also a toggle on my preferred F-Droid manager app (droid-ify) to ignore new versions
If it's open source F-Droid will permit it but warns you of anti-features, at least on first install. I'm not expecting an update now but if they do I can see if F-Droid warns me about the spyware and adverts.
If I got a dollar every time the gallery app I like got sold to a shitty ad company, I would have two dollars. Which isn't much, but fuck Cheetah Mobile and ZipoApps.
Shit. I used to use most of these apps when my life was more degoogled, but even now I like the gallery a hell of a lot more than other options I've found. Guess it's an opportunity to see what else is out there.
Sad to see them go, I use their apps every day. Probably they don't really need any updates for a long time, hopefully an open source fork will emerge until then.