Aviate Launcher was all the buzz yesterday, and a majority of the community were seeking out codes to try out the new beta version. Well today this new hit home replacement is seeing some backlash, that not even the developer teams saw coming.
It was brought to everyone’s attention that Aviate stores your data in plain text form, making it very easy for people to have access to it. All you need is your device number and attach that to their link and you can see all the apps downloaded on that device. That is a bit of an oops on the developers’ behalf, but they know of this problem and are working on a fix right away. Here is what they had to say:
Arvid,
Welcome to the Aviate Community! My name is Paul and I’m a Co-Founder of Aviate. I would personally like to thank you for being a part of our alpha community. Sorry for not responding sooner, we’re working hard to make Aviate as awesome as possible.
Thank you for reaching out to us regarding the privacy concerns you have. Privacy is very important to us and it is great to hear the specific requests from you.
As you probably know we use the app data to organize your collections and predict what spaces to show you. We need to send it to our servers so that we can use our algorithms to predict what your context is. That being said it always important to be clear with the users.
Thanks again for letting us know. I’ve shared these requests with our team.
Please let me know if you have any other questions / concerns.
Best,
Paul
Co-Founder @ Aviate
Kind words from the team, and do not think uninstalling the launcher will fix anything. Your data is still stored with them, so we will have to wait until they release a fix. Let us know what you think about it.
