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minus-squarecoffee_poops@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months 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-squareCJOtheReallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoI’ll look into it, maybe its update pulls or something. Trust is a overstatement, i basically put all of the apps requests to void, meaning they won’t go anywhere.
minus-squarecoffee_poops@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoUpdates should be handled by the Play Store.
minus-squareCJOtheReallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-26 months agoIn theory yes. I can’t look it up right now however, so we need to wait. Happy new year btw
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.
I’ll look into it, maybe its update pulls or something. Trust is a overstatement, i basically put all of the apps requests to void, meaning they won’t go anywhere.
Updates should be handled by the Play Store.
In theory yes. I can’t look it up right now however, so we need to wait.
Happy new year btw
Same to you