with the simple tools suite being sold to a purveyor of non-foss things, remind me of your favorite lists of recommended apps? i was using simple contacts and am not immediately sure of a good replacement. i would want one without internet permissions, which was why i disabled the google builtin.
it’s perhaps interesting to see what existing apps ZipoApps has on the Android Play Store.
What they have is garbage apps stuffed full of trackers.
What I’ve done for now is to turn on “ignore all new versions” at F-Droid. The F-Droid versions shouldn’t change much because F-Droid builds them. The Google Play versions are a different story and it wouldn’t surpise me at all if they ended up full of trackers.
He seems to have locked his telegram against new comments, so I couldn’t ask there The end of an era, I have been recommending his tools to everyone
Netguard firewall can block the internet access for apps that shouldn’t need it
TrackerControl on FDroid can even block trackers in apps that need internet.
This one is new to me. Looks solid, testing it out now. Thanks for sharing!
It’s been a while since I used Netguard but wouldn’t apps without network access be “greyed out” anyway? If the SMT apps are updated to include network access, Netguard will be useful.
OpenContacts or Koler on F-Droid
Last I tried koler, it lacked the feature to go back to a call after going to your homescreen / any other app, has that changed?
I don’t know, I have never tried it.
The moment I found out about this, they all got replaced for other apps. Don’t get me wrong, I hope the dev got paid handsomely for this. Those are the people that make our lives easier by allowing us to move away from big tech by empowering us to actually own our data. Hopefully the dev will take the bag of cash, say thank you, and have no monetary concerns for the rest of his life,and then, for fun, create another suite of apps.
Edit: Downvoting my own comment because @adam_b opened my eyes to some facts I did not consider.
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I didn’t look at this from that standpoint, and you’re right. Not the part of the user’s, since the apps don’t really use any login themselves (that I’m aware of), but the contributors, that was a VERY low blow to them. Thanks for bringing that up. I’m going to down vote my own comment 😂.
how do you even sell an open source program
You sell your name and code. And since the code is yours, you can change the license type as well, which I’m certain is exactly what the new owners will do. Anyone can still fork the open source code and continue the work with a different name.
Simple apps were bought out. See FossifyOrg for upcoming forks.
