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PSA: Nova Launcher is owned by an analytics company
(www.androidpolice.com)
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this post was submitted on 23 Apr 2024
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Anyone here not using an open source launcher after this announcement is seriously learning nothing from this. You are just trusting the next company that either already or eventually will go the same way. Like the dude mentioning Microsoft launcher as alternative, that one has branch analytics baked in as well as far as I remember.
I backed up the APK of the last "clean" version before the sale. I'm going to keep using until some OS update breaks it.
You don't have to do it! :)
One of the original maintainers of Simple Mobile Tools forked the project and he's adding new features and fixing bugs.
The project is called Fossify and you can already download the apps from both Play store and F-Droid
I think they're talking about Nova.
Ooops, sorry, my bad!
@Scrollone @slimarev92 The "Launcher" repository/project/portion/etc has no releases and no packages on its page, so how do i actually download it and try it?
i don't see any kind of .apk or instructions on where one is.