Before I spend money (15 eur is not cheap, but is worth it for this app, imo), I want to know if it's not just a visual ad removal but the data collection and all the tracking gets actually disabled. I don't want to pay for ad removal. I want to pay to keep my data mine.
It says €19 here. (a year!!)
No offence for the dev. But I fucking hate subscription based services.
I really wanted to support the dev and have an ad free experience. But this is imo a bridge too far. I hope many people support him. But count me out.. Sorry.
@El_Rocha
It was already ridiculous an hour ago when it was priced at 16€ (compared to $12 everywhere else).
I want to support the app but 23€ in our economy is simply ludicrous.
I bought Sync Pro for that.. almost 10 years ago. IMO a polished Lemmy app with that many years of experience and tune-up is worth more than the original price.
This is exactly why I haven't downloaded it - I was looking forward to Sync for Lemmy, and I've been using Connect in the meantime. But Connect doesn't collect any data, according to Google Play, and Sync does. I'm on the fence about paying to keep my data my own, at this point.
Because that means you must allow them to dig in their drm far deeper, and thus lock all your users deeper into google play over just android. Very similar to their push of safetynet and their new web drm.
In practice for users right now it means a less stable experience, and all kinds of weird problems in usecases like work profiles. Plus all the things they'll abuse this for once enshittification gets going on that section of the google play system
The dev has stated that this exact bug was fixed over a year ago. As for this version of Sync, should still be fixed, but I will remind you and anyone else reading this, this release is a BETA. There will be bugs. It's getting a lot of attention in media, so that seems to be lost in translation so to speak, but it's still not officially fully released. :)
Lol. Keep dreaming. Not only do you need to do a separate purchase for lemmy. (which is more then fair!) The price is now €19. But wait. There is more! It is a price per year.
Edit: A one time purchase option to remove ads is available now! (€22 though..)
I paid to remove ads and support the developer because Sync is my favorite app for the past decade.
Having said that, I think the price is steep. I understand development has its cost and so I am more than willing to do my part, but this is going to be a hard sell for my friends or some others for sure.
The app is amazing though and I'm so happy to be back on Sync.
$115 for the lifetime option that I paid $35 for 13 months ago and $3 before that? It's a scumbag cash grab for basically rejigging an existing app. Off to Mobilism to check if anyone has cracked it yet, because I'm not giving this clown another cent