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Appreciation post for Liftoff not collecting user data or injecting ads. (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I was looking forward to trying Sync today now that it's live, but my enthusiasm was immediately dampened after seeing the "Data Safety" section on the Google Play store.

Liftoff has been great, and want to say thanks for making an awesome app. This will continue to be my daily driver.

Edit: for clarity, because the post got way bigger than I expected.

Sync looks like a fantastic app, and the dev/s should charge whatever they feel is fair for their efforts, even if that's through the usual ads + ad tracking.

My intent was just to post here in /c/Liftoff to thank the Liftoff devs for managing to somehow offer an awesome app without any of that.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

All code should be free! No one should ever make a living writing code. It makes no damn sense. Writing code is the easiest thing on the planet. Asking money for it is pure greed.

I guess I should have added "/s". I really didn't think it was needed. 😅

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

Not what I said. You can write code, open or closed source, and make a living. Putting ads on an open source foundation is for cockroaches.

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

Putting ads on an open source foundation is for cockroaches

Literally the Web and Android's (Googled) ecosystem... is ads on an open source foundation 🤷‍♂️ and people outside of techie circles couldn't care less about that, they just want stuff that works.

Is it really worth kicking up a stink over a single app that affects you in absolutely no way? Different strokes for different folks. Unlike the web, you have the choice of multiple good FOSS apps to access Lemmy from, no adblocker extension needed