- cross-posted to:
- privacyguides@lemmy.one
- cross-posted to:
- privacyguides@lemmy.one
Since a few folks seem unaware of this, I’m posting anew for visibility.
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oh crap
it was JULY 2022 and almost nothing seems to be changed
how would you know?
If you aren’t paying, you’re the product.
Microsoft Windows addendum: even when you pay, you’re the product.
PS: I know this goes for more than M$. They’re just the easy target here on Lems.
I’ve payed for nova :(
RIP 😭
Paid*
“Payed” is a nautical term, hence the spell check failure.
They have a paid version of the Nova launcher. I am certainly not a lawyer, but it also looks like they have a pretty clear privacy policy https://novalauncher.com/privacy/
I don’t currently use it, but it is a nice alternative if they aren’t doing anything fishy.
I switched to Kvaesitso (https://github.com/MM2-0/Kvaesitso) and Lawnchair (https://lawnchair.app/downloads/).
Not quite the same customization, but worth it. Kvaesitso is my primary and I love it.
Awesome… I just installed kvaesitso after (…about 10?) years of being a paid Nova Premium user. I uninstalled Nova and so far so good. Thanks!
To keep it updated I recommend Obtainium ( https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium) if you don’t want to use fdroid.
Thanks! I grabbed it on fdroid, which gets updates, right? It looked like the most recent was 2 months ago, when I installed it.
I see fdroid update (1.1.4) from 4 days ago and github (1.1.6) yesterday.
sigh
Honestly, don’t care. Until it gets shitty (which it still has a good chance of doing so), I’ll continue to use it.
A launcher owned by an analytics company? In my OS owned by an ad company?
Reaction from a lot of people seems as if Nova now has some kind of keylogger and some random dude from Nigeria will try to access your bank account.
Me neither really. I don’t love this, but I think a lot of people misunderstand what the analytics tools are mainly used for. It’s not often that much to do with advertising, and it certainly isn’t about farming your unique information in a clandestine way. It’s about what’s happening with the app, what features are being used as an aggregate, and most importantly for tracking the crash rate of the app, and why it’s crashing.
Switched to Niagara launcher (Pro version) about a year ago and now I cannot imagine using a phone with an traditional app drawer.
On the Google Play page data safety section, they seem to share and collect about as much data as Nova.
