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  • CJOtheReal@ani.social
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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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            10 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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              10 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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                10 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.