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submitted 1 year ago by filister@lemmy.world to c/syncforlemmy@lemmy.world

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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's funny how Reddit kept saying that 3rd party apps were making huge bank while also refusing to show ads.... but Sync always did show ads or required a premium purchase. I'd say Sync was one of the most prepared to pay for a (reasonably) priced reddit API if spez hadn't blundered it so bad, both could have made bank.

Anyway, for this. I don't like tracking but with ads comes tracking, and the developer deserves something for all the work they did. However, I'm hoping once the 1-time purchase comes out that it'll disable tracking since ads are no longer a thing

[–] AmbleHamble@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The ads in 3rd party apps weren't Reddit's ads, they were LDawson's ad network/services. Reddit didn't get money from that.

The premium cost was drastically lower than what Reddit ended up demanding too, so it's not really equivalent.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Right that was my point though, that he was already set up to support a (modest) api charge because he was already doing ads, exactly what Reddit wanted the app devs to do, but they asked for so much that it just was unusable. People will pay 20/year to use an app, they aren't going to pay 20/month to use an app.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

No, reddit wanted the app devs to fuck off entirely.

[–] filister@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The question is are they going to track us and sell our data to third parties if we use Sync for Lemmy?

[–] Dark_Blade@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Your data is valuable, so they’ll probably just collect it and use it to target ads

[–] Deftdrummer@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago

Do we really care? If you have a smartphone you're being tracked in more ways than advertising and that's a fact.

[–] ImaginaryFox@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago

Ads I get, but the admob with the "unique device identifiers" is not something I like. That means even people who are willing to pay for a subscription will be exposed to them when they first open the app to purchase the subscription.

[–] zacher_glachl@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Welp, guess I don't need this after all. Voyager works very much well enough to consume the 30 odd minutes of new lemmy content every day, and without tracking me.

(now that I think about it, lemmy + voyager have been a truly perfect substitute drug for reddit, with just enough content and just stable enough servers to keep me from going back to reddit but not enough to take hours of my life per day. Just keep it like that please!)

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 2 points 1 year ago

Is it possible to avoid tracking when the app is on Google Play and using Google Services on your phone? I don't think so.