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Simple Contacts and SMS were the only simple apps I've been using. Fortunately I've found Connect You, which does both. So goodbye simple
this post was submitted on 15 Jan 2024
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Thanks! Needed a replacement for Simple Contacts after this, Connect You seems like a much better app anyway. :)
Seconded, graphene's contacts app isn't the best, I'm gonna try this out.
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I'm just using the default GrapheneOS SMS app, but it's concerning seeing the number of these FOSS apps lately adding major privacy invasive permission changes. Are there a few big companies buying them up for a quick buck, or what?
That's exactly what happened.
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Absolutely Haram.
Already migrated to Deku SMS
ugh.
I think a good way to avoid this for any other app in the future is to just use alternativea found on fdroid.
... And disregard the rest :D
A fork is currently being worked on, called fossify.
For now we have fossify gallery and calendar
Not really the focus here, but Google could really improve those listings by providing some guidance as to what permissions are actually required for certain tasks.
I am not certain I would know if am SMS program needs full Internet access or not.
(I get in this instance everything added is bad.)
strangely, you need "internet" for mms so, yes, sms app needs full internet access
I just went into Droidify to make sure all my simple apps stopped auto-updating and they all already had ignored new versions checked. Is this something I did or is this something Droidify did or is this something the f-droid repository did? If it's the one of the latter two that's pretty cool.