Comment on As an OG Reddit Sync user of over 10 years, all this arguing really brings a tear to my eye. 🥲

• Rossel@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They get completely disabled if you pay, that’s the point. I haven’t got a single tracking ping on my PiHole, I payed for adfree.

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  • codemaster@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My trust was already broken. These lemmy instances come free of charge, free of ads and free of trackers, and this pig of a dev comes around and pulls out an à la spez shenanigan and everyone praises him. He should be keelhauled. And the lemmy servers should block apps that insert ads unless they share profits. I’d be happy to pay for features that add to lemmy, not for features that were taken away. Fuck sync for lemmy

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    • victron@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, how come some nefarious people charge for a calendar app, if days are free!!?oneTurd D:<.

      /S

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    • Madison420@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If they demand payment for third party dev they wouldn’t be free open source anymore, your argument is asinine. If you don’t want to use a paid app then don’t, stop acting like someone else doing it is in some way hurting you personally.

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      • havokdj@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Not getting into this argument because I personally don’t give a shit about the whole situation, but that isn’t really how FOSS works.

        The software itself is free, the servers themselves are a service however. That is not free, it may be free to US, but somebody is footing the bill.

        That being said, if the sync developer is developing an app for a platform that itself does not use ads and relies solely on donation, ethically speaking he should at least donate some of the profit to the Lemmy devs (even if just 1%), considering that the app DOES rely on their software and they themselves are not seeing any of those funds whatsoever. I have no problem with donations whatsoever, but keep in mind that it isn’t like sync is the greatest creation ever made and is totally self reliant, it 100% depends on Lemmy itself to function.

        Whether he does or not doesn’t matter to me because jerboa works perfectly fine for me, but that is just my .02. People are really getting way too fucking heated about this shit and seeing it start to infect spaces like shitpost is honestly turning me off to Lemmy.

        People are treating the app like the second coming of Christ FFS.

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    • Misconduct@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Feel better now?

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      • codemaster@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        A lot better

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    • Spliffman1@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And “keelhauled”, really? You are advocating violence and criticising somebody for doing an app that people can choose to get or not. It’s hard, no impossible, to take you seriously

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    • Spliffman1@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Your irrationally emotional and crazed sounding response will actually encourage more people to use Sync, thanks bro

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      • codemaster@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Lemmy needs more drama. When all is perfect it’s too bland.

        www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJdcwvmJ4fA

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      • explodicle@local106.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Blargoroni! Whatever you do, don’t eat rotten vegetables, it’ll make you sick!!! Booga booga booga! I’m ca_raaaazy_!

        (Does this make you want to eat rotten veggies?)

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    • unscholarly_source@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      How do I give more money than I already have to this pig of a dev who made the Lemmy experience so great to me and countless others such that it is now in the top 10 social apps on the Play store?

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    • Rossel@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      lmao

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    • angelorohit@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m confused. Are you suggesting a better way to monetize non-paying users or are you saying that the dev should make the app free for everyone to use without ads?

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      • codemaster@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        He should not add anti-features where there are none and then ask for money to remove them. That’s just being an asshole. He should ask for money for good features that lemmy lacks, not turn Lemmy into Reddit

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  • wildcardology@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Wait… you pay for sync not to spy on you?

    I hope boost doesn’t go the same way.

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    • victron@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sync is no spying no shit, google ads spy as much as they do in any other site or app you use

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    • uSirPatrick@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Dawg, I have Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and a phone OS owned by Google… If sync spying on me is the worst part then I’m doing pretty good.

      I pay 2 bucks a month to show the dev I appreciate his hard work.

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      • itsJoelle@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        If you own a Pixel you could always use GrapheneOS! It’s been wonderful on mine!

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    • Rossel@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not Sync, it’s AdMob and Google.

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    • bluejay@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I paid for Sync to toss some money to a dev responsible for the #1 used app on any of my phones for the last 10 years. I paid a criminally low amount back then for how much I used the app.

      It happened to also come with ad removal, but I block those and trackers on my network anyway.

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• okiokbar@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Let me get this right - you’re worried about tracking it use an Android phone?

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  • codemaster@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m running a custom ROM. Go back to your ecoshitstem apple fanboy

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