• drekly@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The developer worked his ass off to repurpose his app to Lemmy for us.

    I was more than happy to pay for his time. Hard work deserves reward. If people aren’t going to pay him and use the free version, which you’re welcome to, then he makes his money from ads (which pay fuck-all)

    You’re just a bunch of cheapskates who want to be entertained for nothing.

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      1 year ago

      ya went a little too far at the end there. nothing wrong with not wanting to pay a subscription fee lol. its not a noble cause to pay some dude who made an app we dont need

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      1 year ago

      He doesn’t deserve any reward for making spyware/adware garbage. His app is at odds with the ethos of lemmy. Fuck your ad hominem.

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          @drekly @Plswrk, nobody needs to work for free, but creating incommings by spying the user to sell his data to third party isn’t an acceptable way to gain money. There are a lot of methodes to gain money in the network, but with surveillance advertising spyware is the worse and with big risks for the user, which can’t control where his personal data ends up.

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          You can maneuver all you want, it is spyware. My hobby work is free. I don’t track my users nor do I inundate them with ads. I believe that’s unethical.

          My work work is not available for free in any capacity whatsoever.

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            1 year ago

            Good job you’re not using an android phone so it doesn’t matter!

            It’s his full time job, so his "work work " isn’t free in any capacity either, you either pay with ad revenue or you pay with $20

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              He chose to go down that path. No one forced him. It’s a brain dead argument mate.

              Oh and btw, it is free in some capacity. You do not have to pay to use the free version. It’s literally called the fucking free version.

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                1 year ago

                The free version with ads that pay the developer that everyone’s losing their minds over like they’ve never seen an advert before.

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                  1 year ago

                  Rightfully so, because it tracks you, collects and sells your data and inundates you with ads, which is literally every single fucking thing lemmy was built to get around.

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                    1 year ago

                    Or is it just a continuation of the usual Google platform. Being used on a Google phone with a Google account.