At first I thought I’d made a big mistake; egregious amounts of tracking in all apps, enabled and encouraged by google; no ability to customise the home screen which has a whopping 2/3rds taken up by useless, unremovable widgets. Wtf is this shit?!
However, now I’ve had it a few months and customised it to suit my needs I’m very happy with it, especially for the price. I installed a custom launcher (fixed home screen woes), and installed DuckDuckGo browser which has an inbuilt tracking blocker for all installed apps and the launcher (using Nova, I know, I know, I should be using grapheneOS bla bla bla but it suits my needs and tracking is blocked).
Could you elaborate on whar you mean by sending search results to bing? My understanding was that DDG has always been a wrapper around Bing, but from Bings perspective your search is coming from DDG instead of you specifically, which cut the ability to track/personalise the results?
Everyone seems to love Nova, but it’s missing some features I like, i.e. drawers and a text list of all my apps. I’ve been using Action Launcher for as long as I can remember.
I went from a Samsung s9 to a Pixel 7a this year.
At first I thought I’d made a big mistake; egregious amounts of tracking in all apps, enabled and encouraged by google; no ability to customise the home screen which has a whopping 2/3rds taken up by useless, unremovable widgets. Wtf is this shit?!
However, now I’ve had it a few months and customised it to suit my needs I’m very happy with it, especially for the price. I installed a custom launcher (fixed home screen woes), and installed DuckDuckGo browser which has an inbuilt tracking blocker for all installed apps and the launcher (using Nova, I know, I know, I should be using grapheneOS bla bla bla but it suits my needs and tracking is blocked).
I was a fan of ddg until the article came that said it sends its search results to Bing. MS has massive data marketing.
Could you elaborate on whar you mean by sending search results to bing? My understanding was that DDG has always been a wrapper around Bing, but from Bings perspective your search is coming from DDG instead of you specifically, which cut the ability to track/personalise the results?
I’ve also noticed that recently, if you search something like news on DDG, the articles shown on top are by msn.
I’m on nova for my pixel 5 too.
What launcher did you go with? I’ve always been a fan of the stock pixel one personally but I’m curious what people find better.
Everyone seems to love Nova, but it’s missing some features I like, i.e. drawers and a text list of all my apps. I’ve been using Action Launcher for as long as I can remember.