PSA: Nova Launcher is owned by an analytics company

Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca to Android@lemmy.world – 1086 points –
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Since a few folks seem unaware of this, I'm posting anew for visibility.

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I used smart launcher right up until they pushed an update one day that made my phone basically unusable. The launcher would just error whenever I went to my home screen, making the launcher (and thus home screen completely unusable).

After that I changed my 5 star review to 1 star, uninstalled, and there is absolutely nothing they can do to ever get me to trust them again.

Failing that hard at QA on something as critical as a phone launcher is completely unacceptable to me.

If you want evidence, look at reviews from Jan 2022 on smart launcher 6.

That really sucks. It would be brutal to get that sorted. I've been lucky. I do recall once there was a botched update that reset all my custom settings on all of my devices. I was really choked but I had a old backup that restored it halfway. Reminds me to do another one now.

My huawei devices keeps reseting my launcher to theirs which is s really annoying but I think that is a Huawei thing.