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Sync for Lemmy - Now Released on Play Store (play.google.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Wait what?

What has been added vs sync pro for reddit?

I was ready to drop a bunch of money to support the dev, but not if the app is loaded with tracking bullshit

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The tracking is done by the ad SDK, not the app itself. The dev said the ad SDK will not be initialized if you purchase the one time ad removal option or subscription, so there will be no tracking at all. I actually confirmed this myself from my Adguard logs. No requests to ads and analytics domains after purchasing the subscription.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Nothing, same model as sync for reddit except no separate app available for pro or dev

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I mean, it's not like Threads but for me anything more than 0 data collection is too much. I saw it linked in another post so I can't say exactly but you should be able to see specifically by finding it on your app store.

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

To be fair, the comments and posts you leave are technically being collected for display across the lemmyverse. In that sense, there's never going to be a zero data collection Lemmy client. Still, Liftoff currently has my vote. A decent little FOSS fork of Lemur, I believe.

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

Indeed, for better or worse nothing here is private. My instance database has all user activity stored even from other instances, such is the nature of ActivityPub.