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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 [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I have tried a couple different apps but Liftoff is the best so far. Quite disappointed in the direction Sync is taking. Developpers obviously have a right to be paid for their work, but I despise the choice of targeted ads or subscription based software.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can make a one time payment to remove the ads forever

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

That's welcome. It has to be added very recently though because it wasn't possible when I checked.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So both ways for someone to be paid?

Would you agree to buying one version with no updates (except for bug fixes) ?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would. Is it a perfect model? No. Is it better than ads or a monthly subscription? Absolutely!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sync just added an option for that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm using sync and they have an option to remove ads that isn't a subscription. I'm not sure if that would prevent tracking but another commenter said it would. I'll probably see if I can get a response from the dev and find out.