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submitted 11 months ago by King@lemy.lol to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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

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[-] LWD@lemm.ee 29 points 11 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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[-] dsemy@lemm.ee 14 points 11 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 points 11 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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[-] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 20 points 11 months ago

Once the fossify apps are on fdroid i will be moving to them

[-] Longmactoppedup@aussie.zone 7 points 11 months ago

Same.

I use simple calendar widget's agenda and monthly planner. Glad to hear they are being forked.

[-] niisyth@lemmy.ca 14 points 11 months ago

FFS, I moved from Quickpic for the same reason and now Simple Gallery Pro.

Ugh

[-] ragica@lemmy.ml 6 points 11 months ago

Aves is really good. Used Simple Gallery Pro for years and it was great. But switching to Aves is painless for me.

[-] e_mc2@feddit.nl 4 points 11 months ago

Yeah, exactly the same here. Oh well, time to switch again.

[-] Predator@feddit.uk -1 points 11 months ago

FWIW, QuickPic Pro ad-free is available by Cheetah Mobile the company who bought it. Also a modded fork of the last verion before it was bundled with ads is available from github.

[-] niisyth@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago

Cheetah Mobile aren't exactly well known for their business ethics. Partly why a lot of folks bailed.

[-] kpw@kbin.social 13 points 11 months ago

Anyone knows what F-Droid will do? Will they switch over to a fork? Maybe the people who installed it via F-Droid don't have to switch at all. @fdroid

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 points 11 months ago

I don't think they need to do anything. As long as an app meets the F-droid rules it should be fine. Only time will tell of the F-droid version becomes unmaintained

[-] inson1@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

They stoped the updates That is enough for now

[-] inson1@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

https://github.com/FossifyOrg

name was changed

this post was submitted on 05 Dec 2023

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