8bitPit
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3 years ago Thanks for the report @Just-SKY. I tried to reproduce the bug with the Google Calendar calendar schedule widget but to no avail. After I moved my finger, the widget starts scrolling and does not open the options dialog. Only if I don't move my finger (and haven't scrolled already), the options dialog opens. Can you please check if the Google Calendar widget works for you as well?
About the wellbeing initiative, I understand your concerns.
The worse thing of it is that it created a distrust around Niagara Launcher now because we are not full programmers or experts. We don't know if niagara were collecting all that data since the beginning.
I believe this is a good thing. You now get insights into what other launchers and apps can collect. In contrast to analytics services from other apps, our wellbeing initiative is voluntary (and disabled by default), auto-deletes personal data and is transparent: https://help.niagaralauncher.app/article/120-digital-wellbeing-initiative.
it is true that the article mention that it is up to the person to provide data or not, so u must write an article where u explain how to not be part of it.
Participating is entirely voluntary and not the default. You only participate and share your phone usage and physical data when you tap on "I'm in" in the Digital Wellbeing analytics prompt or enable the setting in Niagara Launcher's analytics settings.
also, the steps that a person has to follow if she/he wants to request their data, in order to make the process more transparent.
We already did that ;) https://help.niagaralauncher.app/article/121-digital-wellbeing-initiative-data
I hope that this could clear up things a bit, thanks again!
Just-SKY
davidvkimball
I'd like to add my personal and friend's concern about the amount of data that you want to collect with the next update related with your project digital wellbeing. we consider that even though you don't have "access" to the content of the messages and other. It's still a severe privacy issue, and we could say extreme and intrusive to personal privicy because who would like to have a group of people, who you don' t know, collecting every move, you do on your smartphone.
When I scroll up and down the widget, it triggers the widget's niagara options. It's very frustrating to interact or use the widget. Widget's name: Stuff
Basically, you want to know every move (even if we are walking, running, driving, etc). I personally got scared when read your medium article about the update, and I'm very sure my friends as well because they were the ones who shared me the info and started talking about it.
The worse thing of it is that it created a distrust around Niagara Launcher now because we are not full programmers or experts. We don't know if niagara were collecting all that data since the beginning, or if it will collected anyways even if the person rejects to be part of it. I personally wants to trust you, but I/we think is a step back for personal privacy.
it is true that the article mention that it is up to the person to provide data or not, so u must write an article where u explain how to not be part of it; also, the steps that a person has to follow if she/he wants to request their data, in order to make the process more transparent.
it's frightening the capabilities that niagara will have if it isn' t already have them. I think that if you want to contribuye with peoples's digital wellbing, you can do it by implementing your ideas and not hungry for data collection because that is what paople are running from nowadays.
I use niagara launcher because I trust in you, but I hope you that there are many people like me who are getting more distrustful towards everything everyday.