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[-] Plswrk@lemm.ee 2 points 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.

[-] drekly@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

Lol spyware 🤣🤣

Do you work for free?

[-] Plswrk@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 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.

[-] drekly@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 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

[-] Plswrk@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 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.

[-] drekly@lemmy.world 0 points 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.

[-] Plswrk@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] drekly@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Or is it just a continuation of the usual Google platform. Being used on a Google phone with a Google account.

[-] Catweazle@social.vivaldi.net 2 points 1 year ago

@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.

[-] Plswrk@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago
[-] drekly@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

He just put ads in his app mate. He's not in the CIA

[-] Catweazle@social.vivaldi.net 2 points 1 year ago

@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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