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Subscription models for an app that’s not hosting anything is just the dev wanting a constant revenue stream, no matter how they try to word it. (sh.itjust.works)

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Subscription models only make sense for an app/service that have recurring costs. In the case of Lemmy apps, the instances are the ones with recurring hosting costs, not the apps.

If an app doesn’t have recurring hosting costs, it only makes sense to have one up front payment and then maybe in app purchases to pay for new features going forward

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[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Which there is no way to verify as the app is closed source. So it's just a speculation.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

You're the one speculating. You can analyze your network traffic to ensure it disabled, and as people have done and verified that it is disabled. Those are standard Google Ad trackers. Any app with ads has them, like Sync for Reddit did and Sync for Lemmy does.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You can always download the APK and decompile it. Closed source does not exist in real world.