Simon Jaeger on Nostr: I'm concerned about this new Talk Forward screen reader for Android. It is a ...
I'm concerned about this new Talk Forward screen reader for Android. It is a closed-source fork of an open-source screenreader, and rather than being on the play store, it collects your email for unspecified purposes as a requirement for downloading it. I have no idea whether it's actually an upgrade to Talkback, but these specific things don't feel like steps forward to me.
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