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.

  • notenoughbutter@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    ROFLCOPTER

    claiming these are just as good as sync just tells what you expect the apps to do

    but what I’ve seen and (a lot of the other posters) is that sync is a whole lot smoother than all these apps and is the most feature-rich client

    if getting tracked is your main problem in using sync, just use nextdns or pihole to block connections to google servers or pay up (currently only using google, I wish there was some other way)
    I’ve read sync for reddit stopped connections to google after paying up

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      1 year ago

      Holy shit! Will everyone stop with the “smoothest” and the “most feature rich”? Have you actually tried other apps? Liftoff, thunder, connect and voyager literally run circles around Sync. It was slow as shit. Come on. It’s just another app. There is absolutely nothing special about it that warrants paying for subscription. And ads and tracking on a platform that has been built on not having neither of those??? You have got to be some special kind of moron to accept this app.