Nitter link provided instead of Twitter post. Screenshot below.
This exaggerated attempt at emphasizing their supposed privacy commitment is so over the top it actually creates the effect of making me distrust them.
“Hey it’s been one year since the incident, this also means it’s been one year since we promised our hotel was super safe! Guess what, we didn’t lie! So please visit our safe hotel, we added a bunch of quick police hotlines, fire hydrants, emergency exits and bullet proof vests. Anyways, please enjoy a safe experience and feel safe while sleeping in our safe hotel!”
It definitely feels weird, but it could also just be a reaction to the significant criticisms at the time of the purchase and change of ownership.
Integrity company here. It’s been a year since we partnered with known mobster Two Face and we promised you that he would have no influence over our business other than as a financier and we’ve kept that promise! As you can see his racketeering has been kept completely independent of our day to day activities. You can trust us and Two Face that we will be allowed to be completely independent and there is no tom foolery going around behind the scenes.
Surely you mean Tegrity Farms?
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There’s a news/politics website in my country that had radio ads, billboards and everything with a slogan “Nobody dictates us what we should write about.”
This tweet reminds me of that and doesn’t really fill me with trust either.
BTW, the mentioned website is described as a “disinformation medium” on Wikipedia.
Indeed, it does seem like this.
Why do you need to trust a launcher with your data at all? Why does it ever leave your device? This made me very skeptical about them.
A launcher needs a lot of privileges to do its work. I have to trust it that it does not collect/send anything to anywhere.
My AOSP launcher has zero permissions, except one that I optionally enabled to see notifications so it can do the little notification dots on my app icons.
I was referencing usual launchers with a rich set of features. As fas as I remember, one can also disable most of the permissions for no a as well, but this will kill all cool features.
I can see it requiring internet for integrating a search bar like it does, but why does their servers need that info instead of directly sending it to the search engine?
My only point was, that nova needs a lot of permissions on my device to make its cool features working AND it has access to the internet. So, technically it can collect and upload a lot of user’s data. If/how it does this, is a matter of trust.
And many people lost this trust.
Just install DuckDuckGo browser app and let it block any the trackers, job done. I’ve been using Nova on a new pixel 7a for a couple of months now and really happy with it (especially vs the incredibly stupid stock launcher, with its un-movable pointless widgets taking up half the home screen)
I can understand the flak they’re having, but honestly Nova is the first thing I install on all my Android devices. Its so convenient and versatile
I used to too. Now just using the default one because can’t be bothered to find an alternative
Been using lawnchair since forever, I try to avoid closed source apps as much as possible, so Nova was never an option for me.
The play store says lawnchair isn’t available because it was made for an older version of Android… The versions on F-Droid are 2 years old too …
Just wish it would get more development.
The last Alpha is from August 8 and even then the current iteration is a shell of what Lawnchair was during the V2 Alpha daysConsider using Neo Launcher. It’s open source and actively developed and is basically what lawnchair aimed to be.
Will check it out!
Didn’t believe them then, don’t believe them now.
RIP Nova.
Can’t blame the dev for selling out. I would for a windfall and retire.
But it’s time to move on. Wouldn’t touch Nova with a 1000 ft pole.
the FLOSS alternative https://github.com/NeoApplications/Neo-Launcher/
I don’t have a play store link if you do please post it for those in need
Thanks for sharing! They don’t seem to have a Play Store listing, but they do have an F-Droid link on the IzzyOnDroid repo. Can also add their GitHub releases to Obtainium for easy updating.
And now I just learned about Obtainium. Thank you!
It hasn’t been updated since October 2022. Is it still in active development?
I beleive there is another release planned. They are slow tho. I think very much a volunteer project.
Anyway, I just wish KISS offered a better widget customization.
I love KISS. Anyone picking up my phone would just see a blank screen with seemingly no function unless you know to swipe.
Mine just looks like a terminal with a pipboy scan lines background I love it so much I forget phones are supposed to have icons and can’t figure out how anyone can find apps without a search bar
I was like “Wait, aren’t I using nova?”
And sure enough I was.
The fact that I don’t care is a good thing. It means it doesn’t piss me off and make me want to use something else.
I made the jump to Niagara and have enjoyed it so far. I really enjoyed Nova, but there’s no going back at this point.
I’ve been on nova for like…a decade. What am I missing out on?Nevermind, it’s free so I tried it. Definitely not my cup of tea…does anyone have any suggestions more similar to how Nova works? I like my icon gestures
I’ve been using neo launcher. Definitely not as feature rich as nova but it fulfills my wanta.
I’ll check that out!
And still no sign of the long-promised version 8 going out of beta yet ffs…
Not updated since Dec 2021.
Yeah, this is what makes the announcement weird.
There are apks of the beta 8.x version on their site
I stopped using third party launchers since they began to suck because the full screen gestures, I think since A11.
What issues do you have?
Short unresponsiveness to other inputs when you return home while having gesture navigation turned on. It’s very annoying.
Yeah, this pretty much.
Has this been fixed in more recent versions of Android perhaps? Not experiencing this on the S21U or S23U.
I’m using a Pixel 7, so pretty sure I’m on the newest version.
They’re a lot better in Android 13 from my experience
Not for me mate, nothing beats smoothness of Pixel Launcher, or whatever stock launcher that comes with the ROM… Or that uses Quickswitch for custom ROMs.
Yea no 3rd party launcher is as smooth as the default ones still, but it’s noticably better than it was when I tried a couple years back
Not being able to remove the Google search bar on the pixel launcher is a dealbreaker to me
Exactly, the small lag from multitasking on home that many people were complaining about is gone in A13. Not many people talked about that though.
I just checked. It’s still there
QuickSwitch used to be the perfect fix for this but basically no launchers other than Lawnchair wanna integrate it and Lawnchair is kinda dead 😵💫
I have decided to stick with the stock GrapheneOS launcher.
I really like Nova, but also prefer to keep as much of my data to myself soI blocked Nova access to the internet via app permissions. Also blocked branch domains on my pi-hole for peace of mind.
Im not even sure what this all means? Ive been using Nova Launcher since my Galaxy Note 2, though… maybe I should stop using it?
This means that around a year ago nova was sold to a data collection company. But nova team declared that this had no impact on the launcher.
this is declared for mostly every company takeover, and very rarely happens in practice.
What to do, is up to you. Many stopped using nova .
I immediately stopped using Nova after 8-plus years following that announcement.
Interesting. Maybe its time to give the stock Samsung launcher a try, I guess?
I personally have still been using Nova Launcher and like it a lot more than Samsung’s on my S23 Ultra.
To my own surprise I found OneUI launcher very good and with good lock extension I have everything I need. One hand+ is a amazing tool on top of it
That’s what I did about a year ago. And honestly, I miss Nova Launcher.
The version on the Play Store hasn’t been updated since Dec 14, 2021 and it still works better than any other alternative imo. However, I am planning to stop using it when they eventually force us to update to the new version (which is the current beta they share through discord).
