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Nova Launcher Prime is a paid app that unlock customization features in the free Nova Launcher app.

  • coffee_poopsEnglish
    35·
    11 months ago

    For those who don’t know, Nova got sold to an analytics company a while back. It’s a spy app now.

    • painfulasterisk@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      11 months ago

      I remembered that I bought the launcher at 0.99 USD but not when. I checked my emails and it was 8 years ago. I think the last time I used Nova launcher was around 6 years ago.

      It’s unfortunate that they got sold to an analytics company. It was an good launcher

      • w2tpmf@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        I’ve been using it the whole time across dozens of devices. I love it. I guess I need to look into switching.

    • ProbablyNotQualified@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      11 months ago

      There’s never good news. Guess I gotta try and find a new launcher that isn’t ass. Update: did some googling of the time line and my Nova launcher hasn’t been updated since Dec of 21 ,before the acquisition, so it should be good.

      • coffee_poopsEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        I like action launcher. I’ve tried Lawnchair 2 but it’s still in beta after like 7 years. Honestly haven’t found any launchers that are still actively updated that aren’t shitty. The others seem to be either lacking features, customization or are overly simplistic.

      • thegreekgeek@midwest.socialEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        Unfortunately nothing much. I tried Lawnchair, ADW (on a whim, hasn’t been updated in almost a decade), and action launcher. Went with AIO again lol.

        I hear LightningLauncher got open sourced! Pierre isn’t working on it anymore though; there’s a fork being worked on here.

        • w2tpmf@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          11 months ago

          This app isn’t available for your device because it was made for an older version of Android

          Boooooooo!

          How do I go about installing the fork?

          • thegreekgeek@midwest.socialEnglish
            2·
            11 months ago

            Oof, looks like the only available release is a debug version. It’d probably be a good idea to hold off until it’s a bit more up to date. I loved lightning launcher and I’m excited it’s making a comeback, it was the only app that would let me do a vertically sliding single-column folder lol.

      • coffee_poopsEnglish
        4·
        11 months ago

        Have you seen the network analysis? It didn’t make sense for an analytics company to buy it unless they’re going to use it for data. I know the sesame plugin is sketchy, too.

          • coffee_poopsEnglish
            3·
            11 months ago

            Have you examined to see what’s in the telemetry data? Pi and nextdns just show where it’s going to, not what is being sent.

              • coffee_poopsEnglish
                11·
                11 months ago

                You can tell that it’s not sending anything to azure or AWS?

                  • coffee_poopsEnglish
                    1·
                    11 months ago

                    So I decided to reinstall Nova to test your theory. As you can see, I have telemetry turned off:

                    Screenshot

                    Yet, the launcher still attempts some sort of network request:

                    Firewall Logs

                    I haven’t dove into the packets to see what it’s trying to do but if I didn’t have it blocked by Adguard’s firewall I wouldn’t even know.

                    Don’t trust it.

    • ceenote@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      I was just thinking “it’s refreshing that you only have to pay for it once, instead of it being a live service.” I guess there’s always a catch.