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Nova Launcher could soon add a proactive AI assistant that sucks up all your data
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this post was submitted on 20 Apr 2026
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Total enshittification. Practically kicked out the original team so that they make their own intrusive changes.
Hell, any data they harvest will and can be sold to other parties. God knows how much fucking lunatic Pete could be offering for.
If anyone is stubborn enough and until someone makes a near 1:1 version, do backup the existing settings, uninstall the app, roll back to the pre-2022 7.0.57b version, sideload install, then from GPlay disable auto-updating for the app. Yeah, and put restrictions on the app from trying to do telemetry.
This is what I ended up doing. Keeps it in the older untarnished state, things still work fine. Telemetry hadn't been added yet