I was looking forward to trying Sync today now that it’s live, but my enthusiasm was immediately dampened after seeing the “Data Safety” section on the Google Play store.

Liftoff has been great, and want to say thanks for making an awesome app. This will continue to be my daily driver.

Edit: for clarity, because the post got way bigger than I expected.

Sync looks like a fantastic app, and the dev/s should charge whatever they feel is fair for their efforts, even if that’s through the usual ads + ad tracking.

My intent was just to post here in /c/Liftoff to thank the Liftoff devs for managing to somehow offer an awesome app without any of that.

  • Holodeck_Moriarty@lemm.eeOPEnglish
    142·
    1 year ago

    Sync looks super clean and is probably a fantastic app, but I’m just a little put off by the data privacy. It’s like a month or so in the fediverse has spoiled me, and I can’t go back to being a product.

    • profilelost@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Yes, thanks for pointing that aspect out. I get the motivation to collect data to serve ads but I wish to stay with privacy respecting options too and I hope the contributors to those clients see enough donations to make their efforts worthwhile as well.

    • zalack@kbin.social
      24·
      1 year ago

      The data privacy stuff is all related to the plumbing required to serve ads.

      If you pay for the ad-free version none of that stuff gets loaded.

        • zalack@kbin.social
          31·
          1 year ago

          Because people have run analysis on the activity of the app already and the trackers don’t fire if you aren’t on the ad supported version.

          All of the listed stuff is also required for serving ads through services like Google and pretty normal for ad-supported apps.