The issue is not with the apks, it is with the fact that /e/ is still using cleanapk.org 18 months after we were told (in March 2022) that
CleanAPK is still going to be used momentarily for the catalog of apps coming from F-Droid and Progressive Web Apps, ***but will be totally abandoned this year. ***
I’m not amused: I am concerned that this issue has not been fixed 16 months after the release of /e/ v1.0 and more since the first release of App Lounge
But you are right, I have hijacked the thread, and for that I apologise. I will start a new thread to try and find out why /e/ is still sending their users ip addresses to a completely anonymous web site.