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sigh. Most people will just accept the new default permissions without blinking an eye. They’re taking advantage of people’s ignorance.
Throwback to when they announced releasing a simple phone. Fun times.
Oof, those permissions alone scream proprietary spyware. There’s no more speculation here, it has officially become enshittified.
Guys.
Dont install FOSS apps from the Playstore. Use F-Droid (F-Droid Basic if you are on an updated OS)
Thanks.
A personal recommendation is to use Droidify, it’s just a great F-droid front-end.
You can download the APK here: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.looker.droidify/
Droidify is the best! Best performance and UI of all compatible clients, and even handles 3rd repos that wont load on others.
General question: is there a version of F-Droid that uses Shizuku or otherwise doesn’t require me to tap through installing each of the apps it updates?
FFUpdater has a Session Installer option that works with minimal prompts, both it and Obtainium support Shizuku. But one is browser specific and the other is a bit tedious even if you know what apps you want.
Droidify can do both: Session Installer and Shizuku: https://github.com/Droid-ify/client
So it begins
They were sold to ZippoApps, who specializes in adding crapware to apps.
What else would we expect anyway…
sounds like an uninstall
Hmm, this app is also in the F-Droid repository with its old outfit.
Luckily it got forked : https://github.com/FossifyOrg/SMS-Messenger
There are a bunch of those “simple” apps on F-droid, such as Simple Contacts, Simple Calendar, and Simple Camera. I cannot find Simple Gallery in F-droid any more, it seems to have been replaced by its Fossify equivalent already.
In light of this, it could be an idea to check if you have any of those apps installed and consider replacing them with an alternative. I was using Simple Contacts until now (only listed as “Contacts” in my apps), so I guess it’s time to make some changes.
I’m really curious about the amount of money exchanged. It must have been an enormous amount in order to do a “I’d even sell my mom for that” and don’t feel dirty
There were multiple reports about sleazy companies reaching out to developers of popular apps and Chrome addons and offering them money for their accounts. The money is really good but there’s still a lot of devs that can say ‘no’. They will just use to track some people, it’s not a completely new business that will grow and earn them money like Instagram or something.
Damn, how did I even manage to miss that Simple apps have been bought off? I’ve used them for years and am still subscribed to the reddit community…
Some people suggest the action could possibly be deemed illegal, by breaking the licence the project was made under.
https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools/General-Discussion/issues/241#issuecomment-1837452672 - the dev’s explanation, and replies which discuss the legal issues
https://old.reddit.com/r/fossdroid/comments/1893j2p/simple_mobile_tools_is_about_to_be_acquired/
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It has begun
(ps install the fork versions of the simple mobile tools suite, its called fossify)
For everyone still using Simple Tools apps, switch to Fossify it’s a fork that has all that crap removed
why would you want or need a separate SMS/MMS application on your phone in the first place?
- You don’t like the Google app
- You don’t want to use Google apps out of principle
- You’re using a version of Android where Google apps are not installed by default, so you need to install something
