• codemaster@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Not only ads but tracking and spyware too. I got asked to consent for a shit ton of thrid party cookies seconds after i opened it for the frist time …

      • Murvel@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        Bro the GDPR consent reads like spyware. And the ads?!

      • grue@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        It’s proprietary software; what did you expect? That shit will always betray you sooner or later, almost by definition.

        I would have liked to think folks on-the-ball enough to ditch Reddit for Lemmy would know better, but nope!

        • armrods@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago
          1. LJ is not using spyware
          2. He’s offering a paid version right now, subscription based. There’s talks about an ad free IAP in the short term future
          3. IMHO I don’t see a one time purchase viable if a developer wants to live from just one app (and has to rely on external servers for the app to work)
          • Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.world
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            1 year ago
            • the ads are quite literally spyware
            • I’d probably be ok with a subscription even though I’m not a fan, but I just can’t buy it because it relies on another spyware, Google Play Services, which I don’t have on my phone
            • what external servers are needed there?
            • armrods@lemmy.world
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              1 year ago

              Objectively, ads are not spyware, thats a fact. Objectively, Google is not a spyware either, thats a fact regardless of your opinion. Every instance has their own servers, right now lemmy.world is super slow, earlier they disabled comments to mitigate an attack. Sync relies on your instance being reachable to work.

              • Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.world
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                1 year ago

                Objectively, ads are not spyware, that’s a fact.

                Well, don’t use the word if you don’t know what it means. Sure, ads by its nature are not ads. But ads that track you are spyware.

                Objectively, Google is not a spyware either, thats a fact regardless of your opinion.

                Google Play Services are a spyware, they track so many things about you.

                I don’t understand what the rest of your comment refers to.

              • Hexarei@programming.dev
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                1 year ago

                Your instance being reachable isn’t anything to do with the sync dev tho. He doesn’t pay to keep my instance up.