• 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.