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Alternative to Nova Launcher
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this post was submitted on 25 Mar 2024
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Is Nova Launcher stealing data?
Ever since Nova Launcher was acquired by Branch, many users have had privacy concerns.
I just blocked it's Internet access
Haven't investigated what data they may or may not be taking but they were acquired by Branch (https://novalauncher.com/branch) and with that being said, use your judgement to decide if a company like branch is one you'd want to have data of yours.
Branch is an analytics company, so I would argue that yes, yes they are obtaining your data.
I'm still running Nova on Graphene. I revoked the network permission. That should mean I'm safe from spying, right?
Reasonably safe I would imagine since it can't phone home. Similar approach I took, but I'm using LineageOS and AFWall+ to explicitly block internet connectivity.
OK cool. I've played around with blocking net permission for other apps on Graphene and confirmed it really kills Internet access. I've been on Nova since I started on Android many years ago. Old habits are hard to give up. I'm in the same boat and haven't found a replacement launcher either.
Same here. I looked for alternatives but nothing worked as well.
Nova still currently shows zero network usage.