This REALLY sucks and I have like 10 of these apps on my phone right now because I get everything from F-Droid on my otherwise standard android phone.
F-Droid probably won’t accept any builds with adware/tracking in them, so probably we’ll just stay on an old version until a fork or alternative comes along. There’s also a toggle on my preferred F-Droid manager app (droid-ify) to ignore new versions
If it’s open source F-Droid will permit it but warns you of anti-features, at least on first install. I’m not expecting an update now but if they do I can see if F-Droid warns me about the spyware and adverts.
Well, the F-Droid team may in theory permit it, but it’s also the F-Droid team that has to actively build and distribute the new version. If they don’t feel like distributing a newer version, they can absolutely do that.
I went through and disabled auto updates for them (through fdroid) just in case.
Thank you
If I got a dollar every time the gallery app I like got sold to a shitty ad company, I would have two dollars. Which isn’t much, but fuck Cheetah Mobile and ZipoApps.
Jesus fucking Christ, there’s no such thing as a trustworthy android developer at this point
He probably wasn’t making enough money to keep it going. Especially since few were donating I’m guessing. And even the tip amount was ltd then €1. That’s too low.
This way he gets some money for all his hard work. But it’s crap for everyone else.
I find his apps too simple and the dialer had a bug where if you get a call and accidently swipe away the notification, the phone would ring with no way to answer it.
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Hmm, I don’t see anyone campaigning for funds. Honestly I’d chip in to my instance, but I don’t know if they even have a paypal.
Beehaw did, and they made enough money to keep the lights on and fund a project or two.
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The problem is that the dude started out claiming it was a project for his own satisfaction. Then he tried to monetize later, and now wants to cash out.
Which is fine, that’s the way the world works. But the number of developers that make one claim or another and then change their tune later is absurd. It isn’t even about the money aspect, it’s that the dude switched gears rather than making a realistic plan from the beginning.
Simple Mobile started down the sus path when they launched a “Simple Mobile Phone” that was clearly a Chinese white label device (Umidigi A9 Pro IIRC) used by plenty of other lazy groups in the past, including Rob Braxman’s BraX2 phone.
The phone’s big selling point was that it was Degoogled … But really, it was jumping out of the frying pan into the fire, running an OS made by a company you’ve never heard of, who is also claiming to develop a different OS you’ve also never heard of.
I wonder who could be behind this weird Good Phone company. I’ll just click on the Leadership page and oh god it’s Rob Braxman again.
Simpler forks
Shit. I used to use most of these apps when my life was more degoogled, but even now I like the gallery a hell of a lot more than other options I’ve found. Guess it’s an opportunity to see what else is out there.
You’re in luck if you want to stay with the apps, the other maintainer made a fork of it shortly after, also Astion, the group(company?) behind the Midori Browser is going to fork it too and promised to keep it foss forever, not sure which of the two are gonna stick around though, I don’t know much about the Midori devs.
The fork made by the other maintainer seems to be the one people are switching to most.
The company currently behind the Midori browser acquired the Midori browser. Possibly not a good sign. To quote Wikipedia,
Before the merge, Midori was a different browser.
It’s used to use a WebKit based engine, but has since been ported over to the Google Chromium codebase.
Goddammit I like those apps.
Sad to see them go, I use their apps every day. Probably they don’t really need any updates for a long time, hopefully an open source fork will emerge until then.
Installing from F-Droid prevents sales like this from causing silent “upgrades” to advertising-infested versions.
Great, I did get them from F-Droid.
that sucks but glad there seems to be forks happening
Any good substites on FDroid? Specifically SMS and file manager?
Qksms for messaging. Material Files for file management.
QKSMS
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I need a FOSS calendar app recommendation pls too now
Etar is pretty nice
Thanks
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