I’d probably be ok with a subscription even though I’m not a fan, but I just can’t buy it because it relies on another spyware, Google Play Services, which I don’t have on my phone
Objectively, ads are not spyware, thats a fact.
Objectively, Google is not a spyware either, thats a fact regardless of your opinion.
Every instance has their own servers, right now lemmy.world is super slow, earlier they disabled comments to mitigate an attack. Sync relies on your instance being reachable to work.
How do you propose the dev gets paid for his work?
By offering a paid version. Not by using spyware.
Objectively, ads are not spyware, thats a fact. Objectively, Google is not a spyware either, thats a fact regardless of your opinion. Every instance has their own servers, right now lemmy.world is super slow, earlier they disabled comments to mitigate an attack. Sync relies on your instance being reachable to work.
Well, don’t use the word if you don’t know what it means. Sure, ads by its nature are not ads. But ads that track you are spyware.
Google Play Services are a spyware, they track so many things about you.
I don’t understand what the rest of your comment refers to.
By definition the ads the app uses are not spyware, therefore it is a fact.
Google Play Services by definition is not spyware, again, fact.
Not everything that tracks users is spyware, I’m really hating this place being anti everything that is not FOSS…
You have some weird definitions of facts. I’m done engaging with you.
Your instance being reachable isn’t anything to do with the sync dev tho. He doesn’t pay to keep my instance up.
He relies on the instance up time
Oh I don’t know, maybe the same way folks like Dessalines, Nutomic and Ruud do?
This is Lemmy, after all, not Reddit. It’s not as if non-ad-supported business models are thin on the ground around here…