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Nova Launcher gets a new owner and... ads

7 months ago by ardi60 to c/technology

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Nova Launcher has been sold to Instabridge, and the new owners are adding ads to the launcher's app drawer in the free version. Check it out!
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carrylex 124 points 7 months ago

Once again the "Everything that's not FOSS will turn to shit at one point or another" theorem proves true.

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ransomwarelettuce 59 points 7 months ago

And if a FOSS project turns into shit a fork will come up.

One perfect example was simple apps acquisition. New owners turned it a ad ridden mess, fossify apps fork came to the rescue.

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kate 12 points 7 months ago

nextcloud! mariadb! libreoffice!

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msage 7 points 7 months ago

Fuck MariaDB, all my homies use Postgres.

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JustEnoughDucks 2 points 7 months ago

Mariadb got bought by a private equity strip miner company late 2024, so it will probably be mined for every enshittification possible before thrown on the garbage heap like every company private equity has acquired before it.

(It always takes a few years of inefficient planning before private equity starts rolling out enshittification)

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