6 points
7 points
- LJ is not using spyware
- He’s offering a paid version right now, subscription based. There’s talks about an ad free IAP in the short term future
- 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)
1 point
- 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?
5 points
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.