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NovaLauncher: Today marks 1 year since our announcement that we've joined the Branch and Sesame teams! πŸŽ‰ That also means it has been 1 year since we promised your data would be safe... (nitter.net)
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[–] mojo@lemm.ee 58 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why do you need to trust a launcher with your data at all? Why does it ever leave your device? This made me very skeptical about them.

[–] gelberhut@lemdro.id 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A launcher needs a lot of privileges to do its work. I have to trust it that it does not collect/send anything to anywhere.

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

My AOSP launcher has zero permissions, except one that I optionally enabled to see notifications so it can do the little notification dots on my app icons.

[–] gelberhut@lemdro.id 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was referencing usual launchers with a rich set of features. As fas as I remember, one can also disable most of the permissions for no a as well, but this will kill all cool features.

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can see it requiring internet for integrating a search bar like it does, but why does their servers need that info instead of directly sending it to the search engine?

[–] gelberhut@lemdro.id 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My only point was, that nova needs a lot of permissions on my device to make its cool features working AND it has access to the internet. So, technically it can collect and upload a lot of user's data. If/how it does this, is a matter of trust.

And many people lost this trust.

[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Well sure, but that also means it's rather limited in what it does. In theory if it had no permissions, it couldn't even list the installed apps.

So I guess what you want to say is that it has some permissions, but none that leave the direct context of launching apps?

But even then... do you include a search box in that? Should that show recently opened files in apps, too? A rather common feature those contextual per-app run-actions, but they require some way of either the launcher getting this from the app, or in turn the app supplying this action to the launcher. Include a web search in that box? Sync settings? Show notifications? Gestures? All of these require a host of permissions.