Samsung and Xiaomi apps on their factory defaults are mostly fine, update them once and suddenly you have ads flashing after every 2 interactions with your phone
Some apps that I’ve patched with revanced manager like messenger to remove the inbox ads for example.
Android TV launcher on my shield tv so it doesn’t get terminal advertising disease. DNS blocking hides the ones in the old version of the launcher.
Vscode always breaks something so I do it as rarely as possible. Still can’t remember a single new update or feature adding anything for me other than github copilot.
The Phillips hue bridge app. They forced online login in the new version for “security”. I don’t see how connecting to Philipps servers is more secure than local only.
I have wifi lights, when I move they will 100% be changed to zigbee. The cloud and iot has gone off the rails in security and convenience.
Windows. Haven’t booted to it in years and am afraid of it fucking up my Linux partition.
I’ve still got Twitter installed on my iPhone, despite rarely ever using it in the past and having not even launched it in well over a year.
But out of principle alone, as a form of silent protest I refuse to update it to X.
This reminds me, I updated Android the other day and now my phone is running like shit. Damn planned obsolescence
TreeSize Free (Portable), versions older than 4.7.3 can run on Windows Server and still work just fine. They added a restriction on 4.7.3 that disallows server OS.
WinDirStat might be worth a look.
I started using BeyondPod for podcasts in 2009. At one point, they came out with an UI update that everyone hated but I was able to save an older version, I just had to avoid updating it in the store. I did that until they went out of business and it disappeared from the store a year or two ago. I’m guessing the version I still use came out in 2012
Maybe AntennaPod is for you: https://antennapod.org/
I’ve tried it multiple times. I’m not sure why I didn’t like it but every few years I try a bunch of them and I still like BeyondPod. It still works perfectly.
None, because I get almost all my apps from F-Droid and the repository maintainers themselves will quit making updated versions available if the app enshittifies.
Also, I cannot imagine accepting that shit from Samsung or Xiaomi in the first place. Believe it or not, instant boycott.
Everything on F-Droid is open source. Someone will just fork an app if the current maintainer starts pushing negative stuff into the app.
The dev of simplemobiletools selling out is an example.
Paint Tool Sai. I’m still using the 1.1.0 version that released in 2008 and I have no intention of updating to Sai 2
Fenix nightly. Mozilla removed the tab strip experiment/secret setting in current builds :c
Hmm, I have the Xiaomi Home app installed but never seen any ads. Maybe because my DNS is blocking certain ad-servers? I use the app because we have an air purifier and robot vacuum from them. They work perfectly fine without the app too, but sometimes it’s very convenient to remotely control them.
On an old 6X (MiA2) I had, after the first updates post unboxing, Themes, Gallery and Calculator would show ads, either full screen or those on the bottom of the screen
Discord and spotify cus I modified it illegally:3
OBS Studio. It’s probably a terrible idea, but I have a real Jenga tower of a setup, and any time I update it seems to break something
