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Appreciation post for Liftoff not collecting user data or injecting ads. (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I was looking forward to trying Sync today now that it's live, but my enthusiasm was immediately dampened after seeing the "Data Safety" section on the Google Play store.

Liftoff has been great, and want to say thanks for making an awesome app. This will continue to be my daily driver.

Edit: for clarity, because the post got way bigger than I expected.

Sync looks like a fantastic app, and the dev/s should charge whatever they feel is fair for their efforts, even if that's through the usual ads + ad tracking.

My intent was just to post here in /c/Liftoff to thank the Liftoff devs for managing to somehow offer an awesome app without any of that.

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

you have the choice to refuse

If you're in the EU, of course.

pay a one time fee to get rid of it entirely

If you already have spyware called Play Services on your phone.

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

I just used a VPN to the EU and refused. Yeah it sucks that governments don't care, but nothing I can do about it right now.

As for Play Services, most people will never run a degoogled phone. So, that's that.

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

More like malware, revoke too much access from it and it insta-reboots your device