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Thank you for the quick turn around on removing ads (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 years ago* by to c/syncforlemmy@lemmy.world
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As I said, love Sync, paid immediately to remove ads. Keep up the amazing work my dude.

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[โ€“] 70 points 3 years ago* (6 children)

Before I spend money (15 eur is not cheap, but is worth it for this app, imo), I want to know if it's not just a visual ad removal but the data collection and all the tracking gets actually disabled. I don't want to pay for ad removal. I want to pay to keep my data mine.

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  • [โ€“] 44 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    It says โ‚ฌ19 here. (a year!!) No offence for the dev. But I fucking hate subscription based services. I really wanted to support the dev and have an ad free experience. But this is imo a bridge too far. I hope many people support him. But count me out.. Sorry.

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  • [โ€“] 42 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    There is a new option to remove ads forever for 15. No subscriptions.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    It's ยฃ19 here.

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  • [โ€“] 23 points 3 years ago* (4 children)

    Welp, for me in Portugal it shows up as 23โ‚ฌ....

    I remember the good days when I bought Sync Pro for 2,69โ‚ฌ...

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  • [โ€“] 18 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child)

    I'm seeing AUD$35 $33.99.

    I paid AUD$1.91 ten years ago for "reddit sync pro" (I believe it was on sale).

    I was expecting to pay around $10-$15 to block ads, so this is a bit of a shock.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Are you sure you are on beta 25? It shows me 15 eur when clicking "remove ads", not get ultra

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  • [โ€“] 12 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I didn't see the option at all last night. This morning the app updated, and now I see the remove ads option.

    screencap

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  • [โ€“] 17 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    An insane amount of money to remove ads. Guess I'm going to keep using Liftoff.

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  • [โ€“] 11 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    @El_Rocha
    It was already ridiculous an hour ago when it was priced at 16โ‚ฌ (compared to $12 everywhere else).
    I want to support the app but 23โ‚ฌ in our economy is simply ludicrous.

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  • [โ€“] 10 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I bought Sync Pro for that.. almost 10 years ago. IMO a polished Lemmy app with that many years of experience and tune-up is worth more than the original price.

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  • [โ€“] 13 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Max โ‚ฌ10 imo. Even that is on the high side just to remove ads. But that is something I would be willing to pay. And only because I know it is a good app. New customers will never even pay โ‚ฌ10.

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  • [โ€“] 8 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    The developer is full time dedicated to development of this app. We are his income. People can't stand the idea of paying for the things they use. Get over yourselves. You pay $70 for a video game you play for 20 hours but less than 1/3 the price for something you use every day for years and suddenly that's way too much money. If you don't want it don't buy it. Nobody is making you.

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  • [โ€“] 7 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Exactly. Nobody is making me and I won't. But we are at a place of discussion here, so I guess I can add my perspective. It is a lot of money just to remove ads. You can't deny that. I'm just wishing him the best of luck selling it to new users for that price. The only users that will buy it for that price are the reddit sync fans.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 3 years ago

    I feel that 2 Euro per month for something I use that much isn't really that bad of a deal. But I just want to support Lemmy and the developers that make this all happen. I also did some donations to other devs (Alexandrite this month) but Sync is the most polished and feature-rich app by far imo.

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  • [โ€“] 21 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Yep, the ad sdk doesn't even initialize if you've paid to remove ads

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    How do you know? You aren't lj :)

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  • [โ€“] 10 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    The dev himself said so

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  • [โ€“] -1 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Link? Cite ur sources pls

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  • [โ€“] 14 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    Lol it was a discord screenshot that I saw posted in a comment section in this sub several hours ago, go knock yourself out looking for it

    Edit: never mind turns out it was actually pretty easy to find considering it was in the comments for the post about privacy concerns

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  • [โ€“] 9 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    This is exactly why I haven't downloaded it - I was looking forward to Sync for Lemmy, and I've been using Connect in the meantime. But Connect doesn't collect any data, according to Google Play, and Sync does. I'm on the fence about paying to keep my data my own, at this point.

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    If the ads sdk is not initialized for the paid version, and no data is collected, then there is no issue.

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  • [โ€“] 7 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Except for data shared in the moments before I purchase, sure. Which is what leaves me on the fence, to be honest. Hopefully there will be more info about how this is handled soon.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Sure, but you can do a GDPR request to delete it, if you are an EU resident

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  • [โ€“] 9 points 3 years ago

    I wish I could, but I'm in the US. And on the Google Play store it says data can't be deleted, so I'm assuming that since I'm not in the EU, there will be no leniency for me. The more I think about it, the less I want to deal with it, personally. With that being said, I recognize that not everyone will agree with me, and of course that's perfectly fine.

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