Dnew10@lemmy.world to Play Store Deals@lemmy.caEnglish · 1 year agoNova Launcher Prime - $4.99 -> $0.49play.google.comexternal-linkmessage-square16fedilinkarrow-up125arrow-down111file-text
arrow-up114arrow-down1external-linkNova Launcher Prime - $4.99 -> $0.49play.google.comDnew10@lemmy.world to Play Store Deals@lemmy.caEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square16fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarecoffee_poops@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoHave you examined to see what’s in the telemetry data? Pi and nextdns just show where it’s going to, not what is being sent.
minus-squarecoffee_poops@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·1 year agoYou can tell that it’s not sending anything to azure or AWS?
minus-squarecoffee_poops@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoSo I decided to reinstall Nova to test your theory. As you can see, I have telemetry turned off: Yet, the launcher still attempts some sort of network request: I haven’t dove into the packets to see what it’s trying to do but if I didn’t have it blocked by Adguard’s firewall I wouldn’t even know. Don’t trust it.
minus-squarecoffee_poops@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoUpdates should be handled by the Play Store.
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Have you examined to see what’s in the telemetry data? Pi and nextdns just show where it’s going to, not what is being sent.
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You can tell that it’s not sending anything to azure or AWS?
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So I decided to reinstall Nova to test your theory. As you can see, I have telemetry turned off:
Yet, the launcher still attempts some sort of network request:
I haven’t dove into the packets to see what it’s trying to do but if I didn’t have it blocked by Adguard’s firewall I wouldn’t even know.
Don’t trust it.
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Updates should be handled by the Play Store.
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