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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 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Bummed out they're injecting ads into lemmy :/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year 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 ...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Perhaps Jerboa is best for now, until Boost comes along

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

How a about no spyware third party trackers? I didn't protest against Reddit to lose my privacy to Sync.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Bro the GDPR consent reads like spyware. And the ads?!

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

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!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

By offering a paid version. Not by using spyware.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

LJ is not using spyware
He's offering a paid version right now, subscription based. There's talks about an ad free IAP in the short term future
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)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Your instance being reachable isn't anything to do with the sync dev tho. He doesn't pay to keep my instance up.