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Sync for Lemmy is live on Google Play Store
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this post was submitted on 02 Aug 2023
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I completely agree with someone trying to make some money off of their app, but when it comes to Lemmy I can't agree with injecting ads just so people have to pay to remove them. If it were just about the added bonus features then it would be a lot more acceptable.
Lemmy doesn't have ads and the instance hosters rely entirely on donations.
I must say, this is pretty uncool of Sync for Lemmy developers.
Moreover, it looks like it's gathering user info to third parties like messages, device or other IDs? Hmm 🤔
If true that is a real deal breaker for me. The whole idea of Lemmy is to break away from exploitative data gathering from corporations. If they are data gathering to sell to third parties then what makes them any different than Reddit? 🫤
If I had to guess most of that info is just to feed you ads, but that is already bad enough for me.
I think we can all make our own conclusions. I mean, don't get me wrong, the app looks great. But I think the subscription model and the data gathering maybe isn't the right approach in this instance, since we're talking about a different culture in Lemmy. This is not Reddit. I'd be happy with a simple, straight app purchase with no bs data mining, thank you very much.
Any paid tier (ultra or eventually pro when it comes out) will have all the data gathering disabled. It's purely just for whatever framework sync is using to serve ads.
Those are the ads SDK, which is disabled if you subscribe to ultra or pay a one time purchase to remove ads (available later when the app is out of beta).
Proof?
What makes you think it's gathering that data?
LOL this is not how you gather data in a mobile app. There isn't a
GATHER_USER_DATApermission 🤣🤣🤣Ok then, how do you think it's getting the user's location data without access to the location permission, wifi, or Bluetooth?
That's only one of the many data points an app could get. Simply tracking user's network behaviour would be far more valuable than getting their location data.