Sync Ultra is a very reasonable $17 a YEAR. YouTube Premium is reaching that per MONTH. I have sync downloaded and it was the first thing I did. Thanks lj for the beautiful app.
[EDIT: That was a poor comparison, as pointed out in the comments. Leaving it for discussion sake.
There are many counterpoints and actually good discussion happening down below. Even if you don’t agree, thanks for showing me a different perspective!
If you want to support Sync, make sure to support the Lemmy Devs and your instance holders as well!
*This post was made early in the day before the update added the OTP option.]
What’s more infuriating is that Lemmy itself doesn’t have ads but Sync has, sadly.
I’ll admit to being a bit confused because I’ve been using sync for a couple of hours now and have yet to see an ad myself.
Yeah I just started using it and I haven’t seen an ad. I know what ads for Sync looked like on Reddit, too.
I’ve noticed that no ads are shown when you disable all tracking and reject cookies. Might be EU only though.
I’m Canadian, dunno if we’d have a similar effect.
I’ve seen ads but I have also seen empty ad placeholders.
I saw a Google ad after so many years. Don’t want to see any of Google’s BS again after WEI.
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I am fine with one-time payments, but subscription is a no-go for me.
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No, I’m with you. I had Sync Pro for Reddit and would happily do the same here. Like you, I just don’t want another subscription.
Yeah, I’m not too happy about that. I’ll give this a few days, at least, but I can’t stand ads. It never occurred to me that they would be brought in for a platform that otherwise has none. I paid for a lifetime subscription on Sync for Reddit. For Lemmy, Connect is close enough to the Sync experience that I’m about to say fuck this and go back to it.
I am happy as well with Voyager as web app for both Android and PC.
I understand, but the dev works on this app full time so he has to earn a living somehow. Even the core Lemmy devs are able to work on Lemmy full time because they got some funding from a grant.
In my recollection sync for reddit had multiple long gaps in communication from the dev, including pretty shortly after subscriptions were first announced. I appreciate the desire to be paid, but I didn’t find it clear that there were ongoing development or support efforts.