I lament Nova’s demise, too…

I think the reason that the tech companies won’t allow us to have our devices our own way ( Microsoft was doing this decades ago ), is “religious”/ideological, not practical:

I think they “need” to keep everybody permanently in a headlock, with our heads all twisted, because only if we are all in permanent learned-helplessness, only then can they automatically get away with everything they intend to be getting away with, in our world.

IOW, our autonomy violates their totalitarian religion, see?

It’s the same as how ANY spirituality grates on Dawkins’ blood: he wants it all gutted/butchered/destroyed, & suicides of ones he destroyed are no problem for him, & no alternative ever can have any validity to him.

Totalitarianism, whether traditionally “religious”, or in any other ideology/prejudice/religion, is the same: it HATES violation of its homogenous dominion.

( comically: homophobic-religions want a homogenous het humankind, with no violation of that homogeneity. The existence of homosexuals is too heterogenous for them )

Autonomy is something that totalitarian supremacism ideology “needs” to obliterate from the whole world.

Consistently.

It seems to be a damn-good diagnostic for it, even!

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AndroOffice, or whatever it’s called, is a port of LibreOffice to Android.

It’s a little cumbersome ( use it on a big tablet, not on a little phone ), but it’s got the capability that nothing-else has.

I agree with people who hate the UI, on mobile the desktop UI’s … not a wise choice…

… but if you’re using a bluetooth keyboard, it’s much better.

https://play.google.com/store/search?q=androoffice&c=apps

If you want real spreadsheets, it seems the best option around.

I’m presuming its Word equivalency is similar.

I’ve tried multiple alternatives for spreadsheets, & for me, nothing else came close.

Now, however, I think that using Julia programming, instead of spreadsheets, would make everything in the whole world work better.

: P

Read the linked-to article:

Sesame was aquired with Nova Launcher.

They’re both part of the analytics-tentacles company, now.

Having participated in many “charities”, you’d be a fool to believe an operation just because it is registered as a “not for profit”.

Look at the executive-pay, and if it is over 2x the cost-of-living, you’re looking at a money-funneling-to-executives scam, that is masquerading as a not-for-profit.

The amount of spine required to have real integrity, in this planet, is apparently greater than the amount of spine available in a human life?

it is possible that one of the apps on your phone is a trojan,

and is creating a generic “red herring” in order to hide what it’s really doing.

it also is possible that this is just some Google keep-politically-correct-images-available stuff, and those images are part of your Android’s current install, or part of another app’s current install, and your Android is seeing those images, & is thumbnailing them.

Either way, I think it’s Android doing it, not some app you installed ( Google’s photos app, is most likely culprit )

XOR…

Xaiomi is installing versions with Microsoft-style spyware/malware in 'em…

Same as ISP’s altering the web-pages that people view, for their own commercial-reasons…

Molesting-the-user seems to be THE SurveillanceCapitalism paradigm, in the Enshittocene…

I’m not competent to do the decompilation/analysis required to discover if your new “helpful” versions are spyware/malware, but I’d bet they are not as clean as the original versions are.

Avast has been caught being treason-against-privacy, recently, too, with their “privacy” app that was actually a trojan to enable Avast to sell privacy-information for profit…

( last few weeks in the Tech news, here on Lemmy.world, iirc )

You might want to ask the MalwareBytes people to look into it?