Nova Launcher has been acquired by analytics company Branch
www.androidpolice.com
Hopefully, this isn’t the end of an era for Android launchers

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

  • deweydecibel@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    8 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.worldEnglish
      14·
      8 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.xyzEnglish
      4·
      8 months ago

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