I think now is a great time to remind everyone, like sync's developer, Lemmy's developers need to be paid too! The amount of time all the devs put into making lemmy exist, in my opinion, should be worth some of your money. If you can afford it, donating to the people who develop lemmy and/or the people keeping your home instance up will accelerate the incredible growth of lemmy!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm disabled and on a fixed income. I make less than minimum wage. The only thing I have to contribute are my occasional keen thoughts, but if you need me to leave, I can. I get that a lot.

I won't be buying or using Sync, as its pricing is prohibitive and ads sometimes include malware.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

but if you need me to leave, I can. I get that a lot.

I don't think OP is suggesting this. It's simply a reminder to those who have the privilege of having extra income that contributing to the core devs improves the experience for everyone, regardless of their individual ability to contribute.

I'm personally happy to donate if it means everyone gets to continue enjoying the growth of the platform, as the real value of the threadiverse is user activity.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

sometimes include malware

Source? That's a pretty serious accusation.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

None other than the FBI: https://www.ic3.gov/Media/Y2022/PSA221221?=8324278624

[–] somerefriedbeans 10 points 1 year ago

TIL that the FBI recommends using an ad blocker.

[–] Aezora 9 points 1 year ago

I believe the post above yours is missing a semicolon or perhaps a clarification, so it should read something like:

I won't be buying or using Sync, as its pricing is prohibitive; and ads (in general) sometimes include malware.

[–] Rootiest 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

While I'm all for using an ad-blocker, I don't think you have to worry too much about Google Ads containing malware, particularly if you don't click through.

AFAIK Google has pretty strict restrictions around the type and format of ads they will push and ad campaigns have to get approval before being activated.

So while I do strongly feel that everyone should be using an ad-blocker, I don't think malicious ads are of particular concern coming from Google's ad platform, on an android device.

[–] hexagonwin 2 points 1 year ago

I'm not English native and I often see Google ads in my language. Many of them are of very low quality and some ads connect to phishing links, weird apps or cover contents. I don't think Google strictly restrict them..