Nova Launcher has been acquired by analytics company Branch
www.androidpolice.com
Hopefully, this isn’t the end of an era for Android launchers

Since a few folks seem unaware of this, I’m posting anew for visibility.

    • tourist@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      8 months ago

      Thank you for that site. Very useful.

      I haven’t seen that feature on the aurora store, but I probably just missed it.

      I expect free apps to have tracking, but if it’s something like an app launcher that needs so many permissions and is running all the time… That’s just horrific

        • Dave@lemmy.nzEnglish
          2·
          8 months ago

          As someone who likewise freaked out when I got a pihole setup and 30% or more of requests were blocked, the early days are normally just the same requests endlessly retrying. So while it blocked 11k, if they weren’t blocked it would probably only be a few hundred. Probably poor programming not covering the fact it can be blocked.

          Still better to block, though.