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.

  • Rikudou_Sage
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    31 year ago

    you have the choice to refuse

    If you’re in the EU, of course.

    pay a one time fee to get rid of it entirely

    If you already have spyware called Play Services on your phone.

    • @Schooner@lemmy.ml
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      21 year ago

      I just used a VPN to the EU and refused. Yeah it sucks that governments don’t care, but nothing I can do about it right now.

      As for Play Services, most people will never run a degoogled phone. So, that’s that.

    • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏
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      11 year ago

      More like malware, revoke too much access from it and it insta-reboots your device