I was looking forward to trying Sync today now that itβs live, but my enthusiasm was immediately dampened after seeing the βData Safetyβ 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 thatβs 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.
Putting ads on an open source foundation is for cockroaches
Literally the Web and Androidβs (Googled) ecosystemβ¦ is ads on an open source foundation π€·ββοΈ and people outside of techie circles couldnβt care less about that, they just want stuff that works.
Is it really worth kicking up a stink over a single app that affects you in absolutely no way? Different strokes for different folks. Unlike the web, you have the choice of multiple good FOSS apps to access Lemmy from, no adblocker extension needed
