Since a few folks seem unaware of this, I’m posting anew for visibility.

  • GasMaskedLunatic@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 months ago

    It was unfortunate, but not unexpected. Neo Launcher is a decent alternative, though it’s not quite on par with Nova, and their development has been very slow the last year. Benefit of GrapheneOS, I can just disable Nova’s network access, so I don’t really have to compromise here thankfully.

    • bam13302@ttrpg.network
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      6 months ago

      Just checked the app on my phone, 0 bites used, I don’t really think they get any live data from it.

      • deweydecibel@lemmy.world
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        6 months ago

        Not yet. Nova Launcher 8 is the problem version and it’s still in beta. If you’re still using version 7, particularly 7.0.57, then it’s the version from before the buyout and it’s clean. It’s suspected they turned some analytics on with 7.0.58, but even that still looks clean to me. That is the only update they’ve pushed since the buyout.

        My guess is they didn’t want to fuck with the current version, they just wanted to devote their focus to getting all the tracking shit into the upcoming major release.

        If you disable auto updates now, you’ll probably be fine until it stops working

        • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world
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          6 months ago

          Nova 8 shows 0 bytes used with error and usage reporting toggled off in advanced settings, so it seems they respect that setting.

        • redfellow@sopuli.xyz
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          6 months ago

          Making guesses when you don’t have any actual information makes you look like a fool.

    • smeg@feddit.uk
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      6 months ago

      I quite like Neo/Omega launcher, it’s probably the best FOSS launcher I’ve found.

      their development has been very slow the last year

      This is the painful part. There are regressions that have been introduced which have sat their for years, and I’ve got no idea if they’ll ever be fixed. But such is the open source way, they owe me nothing and are still providing a generally good experience for free!