For anyone using any Simple Mobile Tools app be aware that they were sold few days ago (4 dec 2023) to a very privacy unfriendly company:

https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools/General-Discussion/issues/241

Is suggested to remove them or stop updating them.

BTW the company is an israeli publisher that buys apps and fills them with ads asking weekly fees to avoid them…

Someone has made an alternatives list: https://libreddit.nullnet.services/r/SimpleMobileTools/comments/18929pq/simplemobiletools_was_sold_alternatives/

One of the dev of SMT has forked them: https://github.com/FossifyX

And another group of dev announced a fork too: https://github.com/goastian

News Source on Telegram: https://t.me/Libreware/1210

  • LWD@lemm.ee
    312·
    10 months ago

    OP is correct but the wording is a little confusing. FossifyX was made by a developer originally from the project.

    The other fork is made by a completely unrelated group, a for-profit called Astian. I’m a little concerned by them, as they have services to sell and they also acquired Midori, turning it into “a different browser” that ditched WebKit for Google’s Chromium engine in the process.

    • dsemy@lemm.eeEnglish
      14·
      10 months ago

      They did not ditch WebKit for Blink, they ditched it for Gecko (Firefox), which is a good thing IMO.

      • LWD@lemm.ee
        4·
        10 months ago

        True. I’m still very suspicious of them, but I was completely wrong about that bit.