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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 [email protected] to c/liftoff

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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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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Willing to pay and not wanting to support certain monetization models are two different things.

That's like someone calling someone who buys games but refuses to spend money on microtransactions cheap.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What monitization models? Sync offers multiple options, including subscription or a one time payment, and a one time payment for the ad free option specifically. What other monitization model would you prefer exactly?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

When I first took a look it was only ads with a subscription model to remove it. Later got a $20 removal, but I don't like that it uses stuff like admob for personalized ads over just generic ads.

As for what type of monetization I prefer would be only a paid app without any ad integration at all that needs to be disabled. Or Apollo method of one single app without ads that pushes users towards the paid tier by having the free experience be very limited with one account sign in restrictions, no submissions, filter limits, etc.

Anyways, I uninstalled and moved on to other apps. It wasn't something that I found vital to use.