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.
Here we are, with rabid FOSS fanboys complaining about tracking in an Android app. Probably posting these angry threads from their Samsungs, loaded down with baked in spyware and adware, and acting superior cause they fiddled around on DuckDuckGo long enough to figure out how to install F-Droid and think now they’re elite hackers in total control of their device and data.
If you’re running a stock ROM, you’ve already given all your data away to the manufacturer and Google, at the very least. So don’t come on Lemmy bitching about tracking, when half of you wouldn’t know what privacy was if I beat you to death with it.
You exquisite knobs. You absolute baffoons.
People that diss open source are dumbass dipshits. You should be ashamed of yourself.
Open source software runs most of the Internet and this social media platform. It has provide more value to every one of us than any closed source retail software ever could.
And yes I do care about privacy. I only run de-googled AOSP phones and my home network has pi-hole and a VPN. So I will go on and on about how FOSS is better, thank you very much.
Exactly where did I diss open source? Did you read my comment, or just jump to the reply button?
I copied and pasted my own comment from another thread, because I thought it was still good haha. Maybe it doesn’t apply perfectly but I think the sentiment is relevant.
Yeah and we all know that if you’re not using a dumb phone and an Unix machine disconnected from the internet you’re an exquisite knob and shouldn’t worry about privacy at all and anyone should have the right to access your data.
What a bullshit take.
You’re like a dog, loaded down with ticks, complaining about the single flea on him. That’s what you sound like, you know?
I didn’t complain about sync’s privacy policy or closed source anywhere. I just think your comment is weird and it’s a strange hill you’re dying on.
Posted from my LineageOS phone, no gapps, microG, only foss apps.
I hope you felt good and happy writing your comment, unlike the rabid, angry, superior acting, elite hacker, bitches, knobs, baffoons FOSS fanboys.
What’s with the insults just because people aren’t using Sync? I don’t understand the fanaticism of worship that seems to be around it that people react in this manner to those who decide to not use it.
Sync has an extremely fanatical fan base that orbits around its dev on their discord. It’s like a whole community, they think of the head dev as their friend, and they get extremely defensive of Sync.
Because one time a a few years ago a bunch of users complained about a really bad UI change, and the dev was so hurt he stopped developing for a bit. So they took it upon themselves to be his personal goon squad, dispatch from the discord if someone shares a negative post about sync there.
Well, Sync brought more of the yucky Reddit people which were a minority in the first migration.
