That’s disappointing. My primary launcher on my eink devices since it works so well on them.
Nova Launcher added Facebook and Google Ads tracking
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#32At least in Graphene, you can block the app from having network access, but stock launcher in Graphene has worked well for me.
Damn these privacy-invading leeches.
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#33Plenty of great open-source launchers on F-Droid.
Good advice!
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#34That’s disappointing. My primary launcher on my eink devices since it works so well on them.
What devices are those? A phone with eink?
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
It doesn't support adding pages to the home,sadly
Did you mean tabs (to the drawer)? You totally can add new pages to the home – try moving an icon beyond the screen border.
No I mean that if in Brave I say "add this page to the home", the launcher gives an error
Re: Nova Launcher added Facebook and Google Ads tracking
#36For those still using Nova Launcher (custom launcher for Android), it seems that it's owned by a new company and the latest update comes with the Facebook Ads and Google AdMob SDKs and require extra permissions. 8.1.6: - Branch (analytics) - Bugsnag (crash report) 8.2.4: - Facebook Ads (advertisement) - Google AdMob (advertisement) - Branch (analytics) - Bugsnag (crash reporting) - Google CrashLytics (crash reporting…
Any good alternatives people are using? I've used Nova for absolutely ages
I've been mostly happy with Action launcher. It has the few features I really liked from Nova that are missing from pixel launcher: I can make my home screens scroll in a circular/infinite manner, I can remove the search bar and the google news feed or whatever they call the left page, I can set more than one page in the dock.
Unfortunately, the app list page isn't quite as configurable. There are folders rather than tabs, and there's an extra click necessary to search by app name. Overall, it does the job.
Re: Nova Launcher added Facebook and Google Ads tracking
#37For those still using Nova Launcher (custom launcher for Android), it seems that it's owned by a new company and the latest update comes with the Facebook Ads and Google AdMob SDKs and require extra permissions. 8.1.6: - Branch (analytics) - Bugsnag (crash report) 8.2.4: - Facebook Ads (advertisement) - Google AdMob (advertisement) - Branch (analytics) - Bugsnag (crash reporting) - Google CrashLytics (crash reporting…
Any good alternatives people are using? I've used Nova for absolutely ages
I've been using Octopi Launcher
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.otp.octopi...
Re: Nova Launcher added Facebook and Google Ads tracking
#38Well, that sucks. When the sale was announced, I tried several launchers, free and paid, and none of them were as good as Nova :/ Guess I’ll do another round.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Any good alternatives people are using? I've used Nova for absolutely ages
I've been using Octopi Launcher https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.otp.octopi...
Do you know if this, or any other launcher for that matter, works well on the latest Android for Pixels? Ever dang launcher I try (Nova included) has this horrible problem where at some point during the day the app launcher becomes a wasteland of blanked out apps with no names and no order. Only fix is to restart the phone. It got a little better with Android 16 but not much.
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#40For those out of the know, Nova Launcher is an Android home screen replacement... so hits home when the root of your phone existence gets shook piece by piece.