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mrecondo@infosec.pub 11 months ago
I’m using their tools and now I’m worried. What happened?
This : github.com/SimpleMobileTools/…/241
As explained sold to ZippoApps.
From a reddit post reddit.com/…/simplemobiletools_was_sold_alternati…
There seems to already be a fork : github.com/FossifyX
Tho not sure how trusted it can be.
The reddit post also suggests some alternatives. The comments in that post also suggests more alternatives.
The FossifyX fork is by naveensingh, who was active in SimpleMobileTools’ development. From what I can tell poking through Github, they might not have as much time to dedicate to the project as the original maintainer.
thankfully they dont need constant updating
Thanks!
If you got them off of F-Droid, don’t worry about a thing. If you didn’t, now is a good time to get them from there.
The worst thing that will happen if you do this, is that the apps will slowly get older and you might want to download something else. Nothing particularly dire.
Evkob@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
The maintainer sold it off to a company called ZipoApps. Here’s the Github thread about it.
ZipoApps seems to be a company who buys mobile apps to monetize (or further monetize) them. As per their website, their mission is “to find, evaluate, purchase and grow mobile apps”. I suspect the only growth we’ll see with the Simple Mobile suite is the growth of ad-revenue lining this company’s pockets.
mrecondo@infosec.pub 11 months ago
Thanks!