Fwiw, I've been using the free version of Sync since yesterday and still haven't seen a single ad. But also, it's like they just aren't live yet because I do see an occasional empty box with "sponsored content" labeled in the center.
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I just use thunder, it's open source.
I've been using it and I haven't seen a single ad and it seems fine? I feel like there isn't an in-between of hating it and loving it more than life itself.
Are ads just not working yet or something? I don't see a reason to even pay unless you want to support him, which is totally fine to do.
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Pricing according to purchasing power parity is a must. People keep clamouring about how its just a price of coffee/beer when the entire argument is baseless.
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I don't know if I'm doing it wrong, but I'm using sync and I'm not seeing any ads at all.
I also have DNS66 through f-droid though...
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Use liftoff
The sad part is Sync will likely kill in way more money than the instances we run on.
I can't believe that people are supporting an app that literally adds ads into a platform that doesn't have ads, then makes you pay to remove them. Insane.
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I actually have no good enough reason to switch to an app, the web app is more than good although text formatting doesn't work probably using Firefox but it works using nu.lemdro.id which lacks the option to easily use and format text
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