I agree, just wish they would stop mentioning how their app is ājust so great and only $20 to get no adsā in every single thread and every other post on every instance
Jerboa is free for no ads and doesnāt have a complicated privacy policy.
Oh man, Sync is just so great and only $20 to get no ads you should give it a try!
Play store link: Sync for Lemmy
But thatās more in response to people saying it cost over 100$ to remove ads and it has trackers.
The ultra life time cost 100$, it stops the ads and also comes with some extra features that isnāt needed to enjoy sync.
For 20$ the ads will stop and the trackers will be disabled.
Why would you need to pay $20 to access free content? Devs donāt pay any creator who makes you scroll Lemmy. They are useless and sell you air.
Why would they pay 20$? Because even if sync is used to access a free service it is a product someone spent their time to make, and is optional. If people want to pay to use the app without ads because they think itās made better than the others (ignoring the ad and Google tracking on free version it IS one of if not the best app experience for Lemmy) they will. The Lemmy experience on sync is 100% better than on Jerboa for me, and I work hard running my own business so Iām not poor so I already forgot about that 20$ and Iām enjoying lemmy MORE than I was before
Itās really simple you guys are just grouches.
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I donāt care what client yāall use as long as people are here and not on reddit
If someone sell an air purifier, would you berate them for selling access to free air? Of course not, you can still access free air without it. The air purifier just make the free air feel nicer, just like sync making browsing free Lemmy contents feel nicer.
You donāt need to do anything, just keep on using the FOSS apps. Itās all good. Itās all about having choice.
The content isnāt really āfreeā the people running the servers need to be paid also. If nobody would donate or they donāt use any other form of getting funds, the servers wouldnāt last.
Sync just provides a way to get to content in a nice polished way, at least thatās how experience it. I could watch ads but I paid for a more better experience.
Both need to make money to eat and keep things running.
When you take a taxi to see a movie, nobody thinks that the taxi driver shouldnāt be paid.
The only comments I personally see are complaining about the price. Most people just use it. I subscribed instantly and knew I would before the price was revealed. Iām only saying it because itās on topic now, but tend not to get into the discussion because in the end itās up to the individual whether or not the cost makes the app worth using.
Hey, I get that. A lot of people over here are very privacy conscious and Iām not against it at all. The dev just hasnāt ever given me a reason to distrust them in all the years Iāve used the app. Thereās been a built up trust, so to speak.
The control of private data is important and when Iām told that the collection stops if I have the ad free version I believe it.
I use Sync because it was my favorite client for reddit but Iām definitely gonna hold out on paying until there is a sale or something. My usage of Lemmy is not that high at the moment.
And I would never say that anyone should pay for something unless they feel it to be worth the price. Just like I wouldnāt tell someone not to pay for it because I think the price is too high for me.
Iāve used Sync for as many years as I was on reddit. I paid almost nothing for the app back then compared to the amount of time Iāve spent on it. I feel like the whole discussion on price is meaningless, really. Some people arenāt gonna like it, some arenāt going to care.
My comment to that is in every single thread and every other post on every other instance someone is saying how sync is ad filled and tracker heavy. So letās just all agree to never talk about apps, ever.
I wasnāt a Sync user on Reddit, but Relay didnāt make it over to Lemmy. Sync has some of the most non-intrusive ads Iāve ever seen, and thatās coming from someone who is extremely anti-ads. Theyāre very different from the actual posts and super easy to just scroll past. Itās also very clearly made by someone who is great with UI/UX.
