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
Deezer, because I maintain a usertheme based on an old version of the website so I use on old build of the app as reference.
Kindle (Paperwhite). Never registered since I bought it, never will. Not once did it touch any network. I only use Calibre to manage books.
Some apps that I’ve patched with revanced manager like messenger to remove the inbox ads for example.
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.
Nvidia Shield - The Android update (from 9 to 10, iirc) turned mine into a sluggish, unresponsive piece of crap. I ended up downgrading back to Android 9 and blocked the update servers in my router.
Switch Joycons - This might be a placebo, but I swear that every second Joycon update completely messes with their ability to connect to the tablet via the rails. They still disconnect every once in a while, but I’m certain that some versions of the Joycon firmware made my Switch completely unusable in portable mode.
Discord and spotify cus I modified it illegally:3
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.
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
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.
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.
I disabled updates for Blender and keep another old version for modding purposes I also refuse to update mobile discord since I heard the layout was changing. IDK what discord mobile is supposed to look like anymore, it also stopped letting me use the nitro discord themes a while ago. I’m on a version from Sept 2023 :x
Ah, Blender. I’m mainly using 3.6, because 4.x crashes or freezes too often
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 Tesla Super Bowl rom hack from when my favorite team was still good. :(
On fairly older version of 3C all-in-one tꝏlbox (2.6.6b) bcus has only reliable way for me to keep screen on all the time (hate screen timeouts sorry) . That function appears to be missing from newer versions , all other “keep screen awake” type apps I tried don’t work very well for me , so just rolled back lmao
I refuse to update the Android messaging (text) app. I forget what they added to it, but my friend constantly complains about it.
Maybe try Fossifiy SMS Messenger, it’s on the IzzyOnDroid Repository
Im happy to just not update.
But I’ll keep that in mind for down the road, thanks!
