• woelkchen@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      People want to get paid for their work? Shocking!

      And other people don’t want nagging spyware ads? SHOCKING! You know, Twitter and Reddit developers also want to get paid. That’s why they killed free API access. Funny how you came to Lemmy anyway…

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        1 year ago

        Comparing a solo dev to large corporations isn’t really convincing me.

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          1 year ago

          And I’m not convinced by the claim that putting spyware into apps is the only way to make money.

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            1 year ago

            Literally no one on the face of the earth has ever said that. We’re actually talking about an app that has a paid option without ads.

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                1 year ago

                Source? The sync dev said that google’s ad code isn’t ever initialized if you pay. Don’t see why it wouldn’t be the same with boost.

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                  1 year ago

                  A comment in a crosspost. It said that analytics (which is not ads but just as tracking) is enabled in the pay version.