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i dont get it. whats wrong with sync?
People are upset because they want to use a premium service without paying for it. The dev was kind enough to add a free version, which is supported by ads. However, the ads in the free version use trackers (just like pretty much every ad service), so people are getting hysterical that the app is "spying" on them.
It would be one thing if this was the only app for Lemmy, but there's numerous other apps on the market they could use.
Although none of them are even half as polished as Sync 😉
It's mostly foss (free, open source software) linux guys doing what they do: Telling people what software they should use.
The paid version will probably go on sale in a few months. I remember redditsync being $10 or something and I got it for $1-2 on sale.
Edit: and I don't know if sync is on iOS but anyone on an android can download Google play rewards and usually get 1-5 surveys a day and get $0.10-$0.70 per survey. It adds up pretty quick. I get quite a few a day and even more when I walk in areas with lots of retail. If you are willing to share a photo of your receipt it'll give you even more. I've made a few hundred dollars for apps over the past decade using that app. I don't think I've ever paid for an app with my actual money and just used money earned off rewards. If you have an android (with Google services) it should be an app you have.
I use the Google survey thing too and agree that it stacks up pretty fast. I often use it to buy premium versions of apps.
That said, I really doubt the people concerned with trackers in an app would want to willingly give Google information about themselves that they sell to advertisers.
If you use browser extensions like Ghostery and AdNauseam it'll click on blocked ads in the background, essentially giving Google fake info. After I started using extensions like that my survey questions have been all over the place, and I'll answer them in a way that feels potentially accurate but is actually 100% false and irrelevant to me lol. So I get money, falsify their info, and block ads and trackers all at the same time, it's perfect!
You really can polish a turd.
Not open source, payment if you don't want ads. Valid criticisms, but it's still the best app UX wise, by far, so the blame is not on the users, it's on open source projects to do better
Sync has a giant head start.
Oh no doubt about that. And I really hope other apps do catch up, having one "best app" isn't super healthy
oh thats REALLY bad.
That's a high claim when tehre's features I want that other apps do that this doesn't, great user experience. Just say that you prefer it, stating it as a fact reads extremely arrogant and might be why some other people are getting pissed.
What features? I want to know if I should want them too, haha.
Marking posts as read as you scroll by them for example, this way every time I refresh the page I see no repeat posts.
Another one that I've seen mentioned by users in some of these posts is that the "hide" swipe action doesn't exist, and it does in connect.
Idk, I'm not saying that the app is bad, it's just that the amount of people claiming that it's the apex of all creation is way too overbearing.
Both of those features exist.
I think both of those exist, I know the first one does, you just have to enable it in settings, and if I swipe to the left all the way on a post it becomes hidden.
I also wasn't challenging you or anything, I just like to hear what other people want to see if it's something I didn't know I would want.
Oh no! People enjoying something, better get angry!
lemmy is crowded with the FOSS and privacy crowd. it's what makes lemmy so much better than reddit.
ita reasonable that a paid app, with ads and telemetry isn't their traditional jam.