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  • coffee_poops@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    Have you seen the network analysis? It didn’t make sense for an analytics company to buy it unless they’re going to use it for data. I know the sesame plugin is sketchy, too.

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      11 months ago

      Yes all my traffic goes through a raspberry pi and then NextDNS, there is no suspicious traffic from Nova. I definitely think they use telemetry data, but that can be turned off. Idk about the plugin however.

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        11 months ago

        Have you examined to see what’s in the telemetry data? Pi and nextdns just show where it’s going to, not what is being sent.

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          11 months ago

          It doesn’t send anything because i turned it off… Thats the point im making. It has no outgoing traffic records.

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              11 months ago

              I can say it ain’t sending anything if telemetry is off.

              Even if it wouldn’t go through the pi or the DNS to the outside.

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                11 months ago

                So I decided to reinstall Nova to test your theory. As you can see, I have telemetry turned off:

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                Yet, the launcher still attempts some sort of network request:

                Firewall Logs

                I haven’t dove into the packets to see what it’s trying to do but if I didn’t have it blocked by Adguard’s firewall I wouldn’t even know.

                Don’t trust it.

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                  11 months ago

                  I’ll look into it, maybe its update pulls or something. Trust is a overstatement, i basically put all of the apps requests to void, meaning they won’t go anywhere.