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New Advertisement and Internet connection permissions for Simple SMS Messenger on Google Play Store... (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by reactive_recall@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 89 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Damn, how did I even manage to miss that Simple apps have been bought off? I've used them for years and am still subscribed to the reddit community...

Some people suggest the action could possibly be deemed illegal, by breaking the licence the project was made under.

https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools/General-Discussion/issues/241#issuecomment-1837452672 - the dev's explanation, and replies which discuss the legal issues

https://old.reddit.com/r/fossdroid/comments/1893j2p/simple_mobile_tools_is_about_to_be_acquired/

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 45 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Fossify has many of them, Gallery, Files and Calendar (the main ones) are already on F-Droid!

sms: deku sms, way better
phone: GrapheneOSses AOSP dialer, dont know if you get that seperately, or Welefon
music: so many alternatives, Vanilla Music is nice
keyboard: florisboard, openboard
phone: lol Pixel with GrapheneOS

Its sad that the community did not donate enough. People dont care...

[–] CalicoJack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 10 months ago

To add to this, Fossify just released their phone app. It hasn't hit the repos yet, but it's on their github.

[–] Salix@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

deku sms

I haven't used this, but it seems to do way more than the average person know how to use for an SMS app

Even in the readme, it says:

The technical functionalities of the app are currently not user friendly, which would be updated with the help of PRs and issues. The reason for the lack of user friendliness is solely based on the app aiming to be as customizable as possible. Users should be able to configure the app to their custom cloud servers without being tied into using specific providers.

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 3 points 10 months ago

It just works as an SMS app with possible AES encryption.

[–] NuclearDolphin@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

fcitx on Android is a pretty good keyboard experience now too.

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Can you explain what that is and how it works? Is it a Keyboard with Plugins?

[–] NuclearDolphin@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

more or less yes, but im not too familiar with the project. I was just looking for a FOSS keyboard with completion support. I know it has good support for plugins to use latin characters to write characters in other writing systems, like pinyín