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Nova Launcher gets a new owner and... ads (www.androidauthority.com)

submitted 2 months ago by ardi60@reddthat.com to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] titanicx@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago

Damn.

[–] MoonRaven@feddit.nl 2 points 2 months ago

Bought it so many years ago. Moved to action launcher and since that was abandoned, I'm now using lynx launcher which works perfectly for me.

[–] QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Wow, I've been using Nova Launcher. I paid for it and everything. Guess I'll uninstall. The ads wouldn't affect me, sure, but enshittification knows no bounds.

[–] rayf@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago

I use Total Launcher, even if it's not Foss, since it's the only launcher I found that give me the tools to do anything I want, even in it's free tier. I never had issues with it. But I hope to find a foss alternative one day.

[–] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

Damn. Time to get rid of nova launch.

[–] kazerniel@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Thanks for this post, I quickly turned off auto-updates 👀

I only started using it half a year ago, but it was still the best from all the launchers I've tried 😔

[–] DamienGramatacus@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I switched to Action Launcher years ago and have been very happy with it.

[–] Curious_Canid@piefed.ca -3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

If they stick with ads only for unpaid use, I'm okay with that. Software authors need to make a living.

Overall, I'm happy to see Nova Launcher getting support again. I've tried a half-dozen other launchers without finding one that really does everything I want.

[–] Mihies@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

AFAIK the app is the same in both free and paid case. Which doesn't necessarily mean paid version gets the adds as well, but it's more likely the case. 🤷‍♂️

[–] Curious_Canid@piefed.ca 0 points 2 months ago

You're right, but a lot of apps work the same way, and only serve ads to unpaid users. I'm hoping for the best.

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