This is not ok - Lemmy

Saw this today and now I’m reconsidering if Boost is right for me. I’m really hoping this is shitty boiler plate that was accidentally copied and over looked because that is some bullshit to say “unless we decide we want to use your personal data for whatever we want”. I know “legitimate interest” is a phrase from the cookies law but there is no legitimate interest justification for this. My data is my data and advertisers can fuck off, as can Boost if this the direction it’s going.

Since there have been a few posts and comments about this and people are speculating

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lemmy.world/u/rmayayo

Could you clarify how the ads trackers and privacy policy works? Does it all go away when you pay for no ads?

The consent dialog is required by Google AdMob to show ads, and it is shown when the ad network is initialized.

When the app launches, first it checks for the remove ads purchase, and if it is not present, it will initialize the ads sdk. The ad network is not initialized if the remove ads purchase is detected.

Amazing, that’s great to hear!

Thank you for sharing the details

That reminds me, the app is a separate purchase from the Reddit app, right? (I don’t mind, just want to make sure before I hit purchase again)
Yep, I bought both.