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.

  • zalack
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    51 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.

    • @Melco
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      91 year ago

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      • zalack
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        181 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.

        • @Anders429
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          -91 year ago

          His dad works at Sync for Lemmy