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Sync is back on the Play Store, but it's not a third-party Reddit app anymore (www.androidpolice.com)
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[-] armrods@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago
  1. LJ is not using spyware
  2. He's offering a paid version right now, subscription based. There's talks about an ad free IAP in the short term future
  3. IMHO I don't see a one time purchase viable if a developer wants to live from just one app (and has to rely on external servers for the app to work)
[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 5 points 11 months ago
  • the ads are quite literally spyware
  • I'd probably be ok with a subscription even though I'm not a fan, but I just can't buy it because it relies on another spyware, Google Play Services, which I don't have on my phone
  • what external servers are needed there?
[-] armrods@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

Objectively, ads are not spyware, thats a fact. Objectively, Google is not a spyware either, thats a fact regardless of your opinion. Every instance has their own servers, right now lemmy.world is super slow, earlier they disabled comments to mitigate an attack. Sync relies on your instance being reachable to work.

[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 7 points 11 months ago

Objectively, ads are not spyware, that's a fact.

Well, don't use the word if you don't know what it means. Sure, ads by its nature are not ads. But ads that track you are spyware.

Objectively, Google is not a spyware either, thats a fact regardless of your opinion.

Google Play Services are a spyware, they track so many things about you.

I don't understand what the rest of your comment refers to.

[-] armrods@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

By definition the ads the app uses are not spyware, therefore it is a fact.

Google Play Services by definition is not spyware, again, fact.

Not everything that tracks users is spyware, I'm really hating this place being anti everything that is not FOSS...

[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 1 points 11 months ago

You have some weird definitions of facts. I'm done engaging with you.

[-] Hexarei@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago

Your instance being reachable isn't anything to do with the sync dev tho. He doesn't pay to keep my instance up.

[-] armrods@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

He relies on the instance up time

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