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Sync is back on the Play Store, but it's not a third-party Reddit app anymore (www.androidpolice.com)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/syncforlemmy@lemmy.world
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[โ€“] 16 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Bummed out they're injecting ads into lemmy :/

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

    Not only ads but tracking and spyware too. I got asked to consent for a shit ton of thrid party cookies seconds after i opened it for the frist time ...

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  • [โ€“] 8 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Perhaps Jerboa is best for now, until Boost comes along

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

    There's probably going to be an ad free mod if you are inclined to go and find it in the near future/medium-term.

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

    It's proprietary software; what did you expect? That shit will always betray you sooner or later, almost by definition.

    I would have liked to think folks on-the-ball enough to ditch Reddit for Lemmy would know better, but nope!

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    How do you propose the dev gets paid for his work?

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

    By offering a paid version. Not by using spyware.

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  • [โ€“] 7 points 3 years ago (1 child)
    1. LJ is not using spyware
    2. He's offering a paid version right now, subscription based. There's talks about an ad free IAP in the short term future
    3. IMHO I don't see a one time purchase viable if a developer wants to live from just one app (and has to rely on external servers for the app to work)
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  • [โ€“] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)
    • the ads are quite literally spyware
    • I'd probably be ok with a subscription even though I'm not a fan, but I just can't buy it because it relies on another spyware, Google Play Services, which I don't have on my phone
    • what external servers are needed there?
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  • [โ€“] 5 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Objectively, ads are not spyware, thats a fact. Objectively, Google is not a spyware either, thats a fact regardless of your opinion. Every instance has their own servers, right now lemmy.world is super slow, earlier they disabled comments to mitigate an attack. Sync relies on your instance being reachable to work.

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Objectively, ads are not spyware, that's a fact.

    Well, don't use the word if you don't know what it means. Sure, ads by its nature are not ads. But ads that track you are spyware.

    Objectively, Google is not a spyware either, thats a fact regardless of your opinion.

    Google Play Services are a spyware, they track so many things about you.

    I don't understand what the rest of your comment refers to.

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

    By definition the ads the app uses are not spyware, therefore it is a fact.

    Google Play Services by definition is not spyware, again, fact.

    Not everything that tracks users is spyware, I'm really hating this place being anti everything that is not FOSS...

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 3 years ago

    Oh I don't know, maybe the same way folks like Dessalines, Nutomic and Ruud do?

    This is Lemmy, after all, not Reddit. It's not as if non-ad-supported business models are thin on the ground around here...

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