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submitted 5 months ago by Father_Redbeard@lemmy.ml to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml

I finally gave up on Nova Launcher after watching the various "calls home" its doing now after the acquisition by analytics company Branch. I held out for probably way too long considering the way things were inevitably going to go. I've tried Kvaesitso, KISS, and Neo Launcher so far. There are a couple of features I really miss from Nova that I thought I'd check to see if anyone knows of a workaround or a launcher that has these features:

App Drawer shortcut

Ability to remove browser badge from PWA and browser shortcuts added to homescreen

And lastly, while I don't have a photo example, pull to search in app drawer. This is the same gesture used in most mobile browsers to refresh the current page, if that makes sense.

I'm aware that the road to degoogle is paved with compromises, and I'm willing to make them if I need to. But if there are options out there, I haven't found them. Thoughts?

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[-] Steve@communick.news 4 points 5 months ago

I just revoked all it's data permissions. That's good enough in the mean time.

[-] Father_Redbeard@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 months ago

Sure seems like that is the only way, doesn't it? I just looked my original purchase up. I paid $0.99 for Nova Prime in 2015 and have used it across multiple phones since then. It's such (or was) a good launcher. The best, imo. Stupid venture capitalists ruining all the things.

this post was submitted on 06 Jun 2024
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