Title basically says it. Connect offers all of the functions I’d chosen Boost for on Reddit, and there are pretty few bugs for me. Nice job folks.
Same path, Boost automatic install, warning from trackercontrol (fdroid) that it contains 7 tracking libraries , uninstalled. Connect contains 0 tracking libraries by the app.
I forgot about Boost and noticed today that it installed but I promptly uninstalled it. Lol I don’t need any other app except Connect.
“Contains ads” “In app purchases” “This app may share these data types with third parties” 👀
Basically profiteering off a free thing and sharing data without consent.
I choose connect because it doesn’t do that, but tbf to devs, their time and work isn’t “free” even if access to lemmy is
That ignores the work the devs put into these apps. I appreciate the ones not running ads but we can’t pretend that they’re adding nothing
These things are the standard for apps nowadays; it’s Connect and other Lemmy apps that are the outliers. I don’t blame that dev for wanting some return on their work, but I am happy that we have so much choice in Lemmy apps that I can choose to use something else instead.
Similar story but with Sync. Was planning to use Sync once it became available, but Connect offers for free what Sync charges money for, so…
