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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    1 year ago

    Aren’t they still tracking after that? Simply hiding ads doesn’t make you less of a commodity.

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      1 year ago

      No. The data tracking is because of the Google services ads. An app developer gets no compensation for data tracking, only serving ads which causes the tracking.

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        An app developer gets no compensation for data tracking, only serving ads which causes the tracking.

        That’s seriously splitting hairs. The tracking is part and parcel with the ads, the compensation is for the tracking too.

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          1 year ago

          What I was responding to was about what happens when the ads are removed by subscribing. If the ads are removed, there is no more tracking.

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          Isnt tracking done by Google service app and not sync itself? I am not an app developer but it doesn’t seem logical for someone to add tracking elements that they have no control over.