Sync was always an ad supported app with ways to remove them.
I’m not sure why anyone would expect that to change.
I get it, the idea of ads on an app accessing an ad-free, and generally anti capitalist network like lemmy is dissonant. But the truth is that I’d rather have ads in apps than have developers not getting paid for their work.
You gotta realize, it is a time intensive thing. If someone is working on a lemmy app in their spare time, that means development is going to be slow as hell. If they’re getting enough income to do it full time (or even part time but dedicated), then we have access to a stable, well supported app.
Google has fucked over developers in how they can monetize. They can’t do iterative sales the way software used to work, where you’d buy a program and any major new versions were a new purchase. They’re limited in how many versions they can have in the play store, so they can’t have tiers at various price points.
Google wants their cut, and that’s all they really care about. They get the biggest flow from subscriptions and ads. So they try and channel developers into those streams. It’s a long standing problem.
Thia is one of those things where you can’t hate the player, you gotta hate the game.
As long as people can remove the trackers and not have their data sold by paying upfront, instead of having to pay AND part with your privacy then I don’t think there is any problem with this. Especially because of the FOSS community’s general attitude of ‘Is it really open-source if the dev doesn’t have to do borderline illegal labor in China to survive?’ sucks
Sync was always an ad supported app with ways to remove them.
I’m not sure why anyone would expect that to change.
I get it, the idea of ads on an app accessing an ad-free, and generally anti capitalist network like lemmy is dissonant. But the truth is that I’d rather have ads in apps than have developers not getting paid for their work.
You gotta realize, it is a time intensive thing. If someone is working on a lemmy app in their spare time, that means development is going to be slow as hell. If they’re getting enough income to do it full time (or even part time but dedicated), then we have access to a stable, well supported app.
Google has fucked over developers in how they can monetize. They can’t do iterative sales the way software used to work, where you’d buy a program and any major new versions were a new purchase. They’re limited in how many versions they can have in the play store, so they can’t have tiers at various price points.
Google wants their cut, and that’s all they really care about. They get the biggest flow from subscriptions and ads. So they try and channel developers into those streams. It’s a long standing problem.
Thia is one of those things where you can’t hate the player, you gotta hate the game.
As long as people can remove the trackers and not have their data sold by paying upfront, instead of having to pay AND part with your privacy then I don’t think there is any problem with this. Especially because of the FOSS community’s general attitude of ‘Is it really open-source if the dev doesn’t have to do borderline illegal labor in China to survive?’ sucks
Fully agree there!
Fuck you Spez
Sorry, involuntary response