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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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        1 year ago

        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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            1 year ago

            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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                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.

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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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            @drekly, simple ads are not a problem, if they are based on the content of the page and not based on user logs. Ads as is only can be somewhat annoying if there a lot in the page or they appears in the middle of a concert in YT, but no are a risk for the user privacy, no more than a commercial poster in the street or an ad in TV. As with all, bad the abuse. Years ago you saw 1-2 banners in a page, but novadays you must seek the webcontent between advertisings, banners, cookieadvices and popups

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                @drekly, no ok, blocking trackers is legit selfdefense, but also the abuse of ads, blocking these also is needed. Only it isn’t a problem when a web shows an banner image or two, this can be tolerated, but not the abuse of ads currently and annoying popups, it is legit to block this crap.