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Appreciation post for Liftoff not collecting user data or injecting ads. (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Holodeck_Moriarty@lemm.ee to c/liftoff@lemmy.world

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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.

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[–] aircooledJenkins@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago (9 children)

That's the way it is being reported. Buy to remove ads and the tracking goes away.

[–] Zalack@startrek.website 46 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Yeah, I've been really disappointed in Lemmy's response to sync. I thought this community was supposed to be technically minded but in every thread on Sync, the top comment is repeating disinformation about tracking and there's tons of people tearing down the developer.

I get not wanting to use an App that has ads, but people are getting downright toxic over an App that no one is forcing them to use lol.

[–] PopOfAfrica@lemmy.one -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sadly, we just have to believe this Dev, because it is not open source.

[–] Zalack@startrek.website 21 points 1 year ago

That's not true. You can run analysis on the App's activity. All the tracking calls go away when you upgrade. No need to trust the Dev.

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