For those who don't know, Nova got sold to an analytics company a while back. It's a spy app now.
this post was submitted on 23 Dec 2023
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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
I've been using it the whole time across dozens of devices. I love it. I guess I need to look into switching.
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.
If you find something good please tell.
Whats an alternative then?
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
It doesn't send anything beyond telemetry, wich can be tured off, but yes you shouldn't pay for it.
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.
Yes all my traffic goes through a raspberry pi and then NextDNS, there is no suspicious traffic from Nova. I definitely think they use telemetry data, but that can be turned off. Idk about the plugin however.
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.
It doesn't send anything because i turned it off... Thats the point im making. It has no outgoing traffic records.
You can tell that it's not sending anything to azure or AWS?
I can say it ain't sending anything if telemetry is off.
Even if it wouldn't go through the pi or the DNS to the outside.
So I decided to reinstall Nova to test your theory. As you can see, I have telemetry turned off:
Yet, the launcher still attempts some sort of network request:
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.
I'll look into it, maybe its update pulls or something. Trust is a overstatement, i basically put all of the apps requests to void, meaning they won't go anywhere.
Updates should be handled by the Play Store.
In theory yes. I can't look it up right now however, so we need to wait.
Happy new year btw
Same to you