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Liftoff!

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Appreciation post for Liftoff not collecting user data or injecting ads. (lemm.ee)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Holodeck_Moriarty@lemm.ee to c/liftoff@lemmy.world
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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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[–] PopOfAfrica@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

Let's break it down this way. Let's look at incentive structure's.

An Open Source application can be forked, and has no incentive to use data in a maligned way.

A closed one can earn tons of money by doing just that.

As I argue with most things, Capitalism is the main issue and it permeates through all facets of life by having backwards incentive structures