They get completely disabled if you pay, thatās the point. I havenāt got a single tracking ping on my PiHole, I bought adfree.
My trust was already broken. These lemmy instances come free of charge, free of ads and free of trackers, and this pig of a dev comes around and pulls out an Ć la spez shenanigan and everyone praises him. He should be keelhauled. And the lemmy servers should block apps that insert ads unless they share profits. Iād be happy to pay for features that add to lemmy, not for features that were taken away. Fuck sync for lemmy. There, i said it
Freeloader. Enjoy your free stuff off the backs of people doing all the work and paying all the bills.
Iām confused. Are you suggesting a better way to monetize non-paying users or are you saying that the dev should make the app free for everyone to use without ads?
He should not add anti-features where there are none and then ask for money to remove them. Thatās just being an asshole. He should ask for money for good features that lemmy lacks, not turn Lemmy into Reddit
If they demand payment for third party dev they wouldnāt be free open source anymore, your argument is asinine. If you donāt want to use a paid app then donāt, stop acting like someone else doing it is in some way hurting you personally.
Not getting into this argument because I personally donāt give a shit about the whole situation, but that isnāt really how FOSS works.
The software itself is free, the servers themselves are a service however. That is not free, it may be free to US, but somebody is footing the bill.
That being said, if the sync developer is developing an app for a platform that itself does not use ads and relies solely on donation, ethically speaking he should at least donate some of the profit to the Lemmy devs (even if just 1%), considering that the app DOES rely on their software and they themselves are not seeing any of those funds whatsoever. I have no problem with donations whatsoever, but keep in mind that it isnāt like sync is the greatest creation ever made and is totally self reliant, it 100% depends on Lemmy itself to function.
Whether he does or not doesnāt matter to me because jerboa works perfectly fine for me, but that is just my .02. People are really getting way too fucking heated about this shit and seeing it start to infect spaces like shitpost is honestly turning me off to Lemmy.
People are treating the app like the second coming of Christ FFS.
Blargoroni! Whatever you do, donāt eat rotten vegetables, itāll make you sick!!! Booga booga booga! Iām ca_raaaazy_!
(Does this make you want to eat rotten veggies?)
Lemmy needs more drama. When all is perfect itās too bland.
Waitā¦ you pay for sync not to spy on you?
I hope boost doesnāt go the same way.
I paid for Sync to toss some money to a dev responsible for the #1 used app on any of my phones for the last 10 years. I paid a criminally low amount back then for how much I used the app.
It happened to also come with ad removal, but I block those and trackers on my network anyway.
Dawg, I have Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and a phone OS owned by Googleā¦ If sync spying on me is the worst part then Iām doing pretty good.
I pay 2 bucks a month to show the dev I appreciate his hard work.
If you own a Pixel you could always use GrapheneOS! Itās been wonderful on mine!
