Boost For Lemmy

Dev here.

The dialog and its content is not created by me, it is a standard solution from Google to comply with GDPR and other laws. More info here: https://support.google.com/admob/answer/10114014?hl=en

The consent dialog is also required by Google AdMob to show ads, and it is shown when the ad network is initialized.

When the app launches, first it checks for the remove ads purchase, and if it is not present, it will initialize the ads sdk. The ad network is not initialized if the remove ads purchase is detected.

Boost for Reddit was using the very same ad networks and consent dialog.

Wife : "Promise you won't have sex with my sister".

Husband : " I won't have sex with your sister under any circumstances, (quiet part); unless I have a legitimate interest in doing so."

legitimate interest is a shitty data privacy loophole

Since there have been a few posts and comments about this and people are speculating

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https://lemmy.world/u/rmayayo

Could you clarify how the ads trackers and privacy policy works? Does it all go away when you pay for no ads?

I'm kind of confused how this is so controversial or unexpected. You're using commercial software for free, ad support should be expected. It definitely sounded like and was confirmed to be out of the dev's hands, it's Google's ad platform. If you can spend $3.50 USD to remove ads it's not a concern.

I love free software but people also need to feed their families. This guy chose software as a way to do that. Being opposed to ads is great but either cough up the 3.50 for an app you'll likely use thousands of hours or don't. Don't shame the guy for allowing it to also be used "free" with ads.

Not being FOSS disqualifies any lemmy client for me, I dont want a client that undermines what I like about the platform.

Funny I'm seeing this after me googling what legitimate interest meant.

A user should be able to turn off legitimate interest cookies.

I also considered checking out Boost, but this is definitely a deal-breaker to me.

Tis is not not ok, actually. I'm a software dev for a European company. I'm briefed by our lawyers.

"Legitimate use" isn't just a phrase from cookie law, it has a very specific meaning.

What's legitimate use? Well, any data I necessarily have to store for our business relation I can store. For as long as I need it. For example: You want me to send you something? Gonna need to store your address. After I sent the package I don't have any need for your address any more so I'd need your explicit consent to store it longer.

Another example for what is considered personal data: IP addresses. Which I store for as long as you watch my site, so that would be another example for a legitimate reason to store personal data.

Still I don't get why they display this banner. To my knowledge it's not necessary to inform the user about storage for legitimate reasons.

All that said, there's plenty of examples of companies illegitimately storing personal data, google is a good example they were sued only yesterday (fitbit)

lmfao "trust me bro" as terms of service

Use something FOSS.

Knee jerk responses like this are why Lemmy seems doomed to stagnate and die. And this is coming from someone who used to be all in. Utterly tired of the mob of goofs that think everything should be developed for free and anyone that tries to make a legitimate living in this space is an evil bastard.

Dev here.

Ads don’t need user data.

Programmatic ads need user data.

There are more ad types than programmatic.

Programmatic ads pay the highest.

I don’t think it’s right to blame GDPR on this.

Voyager and Jerboa are both good options if this bothers you. I didn't have to agree to any permissions when I installed both as no data is collected. No ads too!

Oof...bad look boost

Legit interest = We want to make money

I love how they say "Legitimate Interest", normally they say "Legal Reason" or "To comply with law enforcement" or something that makes it clear the rule would only be broken under extraneous circumstances.

But "Legitimate Interest", mother fucker, you wouldn't even be asking if I wanted to to opt out if you didn't already have a "Legitimate Interest" in monetizing every aspect of life. One of these days we're gonna get cybernetic implants that block our lungs off unless we watch a five second ad, because somehow that's a law now.

Cheese and fucking rice!

I know there's a lot that has gone down in this thread, but I think everyone needs to remember why we are here in the first place. We're here because we want to be able to use any app we want.

If you're fine with this data usage, use Boost. If you're not comfortable with it, use Jerboa. If there's a killer feature you want from Boost, add it to Jerboa yourself or pay to remove the ads.

We have the choice between multiple apps with different compromises. What makes Lemmy so great is that they allow you to pick the client you want. Nobody here is forced to accept these terms in order to use Lemmy.

Though, saying that, maybe it would be better to make this clearer somewhere. But it's a beta product, and this is the kind of thing you learn from them.

"I promise to not punch you in the face, unless I wanna."

ITT: It's ok

Over 300 comments.....I've never even seen so many in boost subreddit wtf. Did everyone from lemmy come here?