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.
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.
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
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.
how do you even sell an open source program
