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[–] [email protected] 67 points 6 months ago (13 children)

Anyone here not using an open source launcher after this announcement is seriously learning nothing from this. You are just trusting the next company that either already or eventually will go the same way. Like the dude mentioning Microsoft launcher as alternative, that one has branch analytics baked in as well as far as I remember.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Be aware that using open source doesn't protect you completely from this, look at what happened to Simple Mobile tools, best install your open source applications from f-droid.

Do you have any good open source alternatives for Nova Launcher?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

What happened to simple tools? And I downloaded them from F-Droid

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