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Observer1199 Sep 26, 2023

This is not ok

https://lemmy.ml/post/5536310

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.

Rubén Sep 26, 2023

Dev here.

The dialog and its content is not created by me, it is a standard solution from Google to comply with GDPR and other laws. More info here: support.google.com/admob/answer/10114014?hl=en

The consent dialog is also 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.

Boost for Reddit was using the very same ad networks and consent dialog.

Polar Sep 26, 2023

With the hate here, even after you explained, I am starting to think these FOSS heads are going to kill Lemmy.

Instead of just using any other app, they are attacking you. What a great way to push any future devs away. Lemmy will continue to be a weird little FOSS niche if the FOSS users don’t stop soiling their diapers over nothing.

I am starting to think these FOSS heads are going to kill Lemmy.

The “FOSS heads” are the only reason why Lemmy exists at all.

𝕯𝖎𝖕𝖘𝖍𝖎𝖙 Sep 27, 2023

How dare those supporters of open source software support open source software (Lemmy)!

voidMainVoid Sep 27, 2023

To steel-man this argument, it’s really “Free software supporters are too hostile and demanding, and they’ll scare off developers.”

I have seen no evidence of this happening. Instead, there’s a huge number of Lemmy clients, both open and closed source. I have at least half a dozen installed on my phone, and that’s not even all of them! Compare that to the number of Mastodon clients.

Polar Sep 27, 2023

Great. Let me know how many are still around in a year when people realize they’re working for free, and can’t keep doing it.

wanderingmagus Sep 27, 2023

Mods on Reddit work for free, and have worked for free, for over a decade. They’re still working for free. Same with admins on Lemmy. Not everything is profit-driven.

Polar Sep 27, 2023

Reddit mods are paid in control. They get to feel big and important.

I mean shit, toxic ass mod team of /r/Android was late to Lemmy, and is trying their hardest to maintain control over here. They made an agreement with the original lemmy.world android community to shut down and redirect the traffic to their lemdro.id instance.

@[email protected] resurrected it.

So that’s a pretty bad comparison in my opinion.

Margot Robbie Sep 27, 2023

One minute I was here promoting a movie, the next minute I was top mod of a community of smartphone enthusiasts.

I’m still not quite sure how that happened.

voidMainVoid Sep 27, 2023

You’re implying two things: 1) They don’t realize that they’re working for free now (lol), and 2) They won’t be able to keep doing it (for some reason).

Polar Sep 27, 2023

Okay, well have fun when you push everyone else away. Lemmy will look like the Ubuntu forums lol.

This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥Sep 28, 2023

Oooooh snap!

DigitalPortkey Sep 27, 2023

I have been using nothing but Linux for the last decade (literally, Arch for years and now Nix) and I’m increasingly growing to hate how so many OSS communities are bordering on zealotry.

I’ve completely unsubbed from most Android communities now too because they’re all such toxic, hostile places to be if you have the sheer audacity to use anything proprietary or closed source.

I’ve been around this block. I’ve been both using and contributing to open source projects, some small, some large. I’m proud of what open source developers have achieved and am humbled by most of them. But the users…the users are starting to get really annoying.

This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥Sep 28, 2023

Cool, do you want it to be a FOSS only place even in comments?

Antik 👾Sep 28, 2023

And without the users it doesn’t matter which app you use. So let people have their fun, let people make their own choices and maybe in your eyes - mistakes.

The developer of this app is well within his rights to be paid for his time developing this app. Don’t like ads, either pay or move on.

Indirectly he is still helping you and the communities you subscribed to by getting users on-board and bringing more people in touch with Lemmy and FOSS. Gatekeeping isn’t helping anyone.