We all saw in the news that Simple Mobile Tools got acquired by ZipoApps and they started filling up the free apps with ads.
Luckily, being those apps open source, a new fork has been created.
It’s called Fossify. They forked all the apps on GitHub and they have a new maintainer.
Now we just need to wait for their first official release and then… we need to spread the word and make people switch from the old SMT apps to Fossify!
And we need some people to step up and become contributors and maintainers.
Agreed! I just sent some money to them.
Just a heads up for anyone exploring in the future, they now seem to be FossifyOrg: https://github.com/FossifyOrg
I dont use any of this simple apps but im glad that someones have forked the apps source code and go further with them if i can i will give my contribute im not a android developer expert but i know the basics.
The constants updates of klotin code and android source code itself gives me less motivation…
Is not hard to code its hard to keep updated.
The question here is why some company invests in opensource code to flood the apps with trackers instead of created from scratch?
The answer unfortunately is simple 10% of all android users understand and cares about privacy and foss apps 90% dont understand or does not care about that.
That means 90% of android users soon or later are giving for free a lot of privat data to this companies and they can sell and/or use to make profit or booth.
How can we change this?
We can’t… there is only two ways to change this and they are not within our reach
1 on the shool everyone should have lessons about privacy on the internet.
Which shool take the initiative to start??..
2 create a law that prohibit companies to colect privat data.
Less liked to see the light of the sun…
