Use something FOSS.

I honestly can’t understand why in a world of open source alternatives, one would be OK with an option that shows you ads in exchange for spying on you

I don’t know any open source client that is even remotely as nice to use as Boost. Also, it’s not like the developer is actively spying on you, that’s just the default AdMob popup Google is now forced to show (They simply didn’t ask for any kind of consent in the past).

Anyway, I simply paid a few bucks for ad-free Boost.

The point stands. Why are you willing to sell your data for a minor convenience like a slightly better UI for social media app.

Of all the fucking things you sell your data for, you’re doing it for the UI of a social media. Fucking UI of fucking social media, that’s the convenience you’re willing to sell your data for?

See personally I think I’m a lot more valuable than that.

It’s like you only read the first sentence of their response and ignored the rest.

Boost has to show the google ads consent and TOS. It only shows up if it downloads the google ads SDK after checking to see if you purchased ad free. So if you purchased ad free version you wouldn’t see this TOS since you didn’t get the Google Ads SDK.

You are most definitely not more valuable than the data collection they can do. Do not kid yourself.

I think their point was that they value/respect themselves enough to not sell their information for better UI

But not enough to spend a few bucks on the ad-free version of the app

If I personally wanted to spend money, I would donate to people who make open-source Lemmy clients free for everyone without spying on non-paying users instead of paying for this.

But you’re not the same as everyone else and it’s to be expected that they have different priorities, right?