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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Holodeck_Moriarty@lemm.ee to c/liftoff@lemmy.world

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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[-] confluence@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

Aren't they still tracking after that? Simply hiding ads doesn't make you less of a commodity.

[-] Spacebar@lemmy.world 106 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No. The data tracking is because of the Google services ads. An app developer gets no compensation for data tracking, only serving ads which causes the tracking.

[-] SaintWacko@midwest.social 70 points 1 year ago

It's been confirmed that if you pay to remove ads, the ad sdk doesn't even get loaded

this post was submitted on 02 Aug 2023
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