• WiildFiire@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Sync dev has made it incredibly clear what data is being recorded and it’s only because of Google ads

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      1 year ago

      The point is that with a closed source app your only support for that statement is trust in the developer, while if it was open source we would actually be able to confirm that.

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        1 year ago

        If it’s open source, the developer can’t monetize it. Everyone will just be able to remove ads and compile it from scratch.

        FOSS is all fine and dandy, unless being a developer for a popular service (or app) is your sole source of income.

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          1 year ago

          That’s just not what really happens though. Look at Robert Broglia’s emulators. They are open source and paid, and are some of the most popular paid emulators on the play store despite the fact that people could just download the source from his site and compile them.

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          1 year ago

          Bruh I dont care what sort of sauce it has I dont want to compile, it what the fuck. You can have my money, just pipe the memes into my cerebral cortex.