No one says sync for lemmy should be free. Most people just oppose the subscription based model. Also our user data is being sold to data hoarding companies by sync for lemmy. That is extremely conflicting with the open source model of lemmy.

Lucky patcher and adaway. Haven't seen one ad so far.

subscriptions based services are mostly about cash grabbing. I really hate it that you have to pay a subscription to use a software. I'll purchase any software for a reasonable price but I'd never subscribe for a software product like this.