Loading screens got shorter as tech improved. Now tech is too fast for proper ads so I bet there's going to be intentional delay time added in the future for more ad impressions.

Rishi is an actual piece of shit.

nice 'n tiny limp dicks too

Oh BEYOND out of their minds. Sync is certainly a great app. But like, I can buy a game for what they wanted. I was a Boost user on Reddit, had that labour of love feel to it.

Sadly the people most at risk have contributed the least to this mess. Those that contributed the most will be the least affected.

They consulted Twitch mods and they said it's ok.

Personally I was a Boost fan and I'm excited for its release for lemmy. But I'm using sync in the meantime and absolutely loving it. There's a smoothness to this app, a refinement if you will that I couldn't find on any of the other apps. The level of customization to make my feed my own.

The Lemmy userbase is so small by comparison to reddit. I don't like subscriptions or ads but my god man's gotta eat. People get butthurt way too easily over this stuff.

It's funny, I always kept Firefox and Brave (yes I'm aware its chromium and full of fuckery) installed. But as soon as this news broke, before it was even confirmed, I swapped back from Brave to Firefox as my primary. Fuck Google for this. They're just truly not the company they once were.

Just about everywhere does that. People love throwing around the charge back option on the internet but it often fucked you over. Some companies use 3rd party payment processors so it can not only ban you from the company you charged back but also anything else using that processor.

To see if you purchased the app. You have to keep in mind that these descriptors are very broad and even a miniscule use of one requires it be disclosed.

I would add that in addition to this, the community could spool up another instance in a game of cat an mouse should anyone ever TRY to stop it. As the saying goes: piracy is like hydra, you cut one head off and two grow back.