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
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.
How do you propose the dev gets paid for his work?
By offering a paid version. Not by using spyware.
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.
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.
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.
Your instance being reachable isn’t anything to do with the sync dev tho. He doesn’t pay to keep my instance up.