Is there a one time payment option to remove ads?
Or is sync ultra the only way to remove ads?
I would love to support sync, but the subscription fatigue is real.
It will continue to be so weird for me to go from no ads to ads (or paying a subscription) just because you like the interface a bit more. All the free UIs already available seem perfectly usable and roughly equivalent in convenience.
Yeah, if subscription is the only way to remove ads then I’m fine with the Foss options like liftoff. And I’m blocking ads system wide on my phone, so it’s not like I see any ads on Sync. But, I would still prefer to be able to pay to remove it, since I have moved away from using apps that have ads in favor of Foss or paying to for the ad free version over the years.
Hey, any tips to block ads system wide?
dns another comment suggested or something like personaldnsfilter or rethink which creates a local vpn. Both are on the play store or f-droid.
Yeah. I don’t see a compelling reason to switch to Sync when there are so many other alternatives that are free and without ads. And then comes the subscription! Get outta here. I’m not even going to mention the data tracking. I’m sticking with my FOSS apps, thank you very much.
subscription fatigue is real.
I LOL’d at that phrase. So true. That being said, $17/yr feels pretty reasonable to me.
So far, I’m seeing placeholders for ads in my feed–but no actual ads. But I have multiple layers of adblocking set up at home, so…
$17/yr feels crazy expensive. After only a few years it’s the price of a AAA video game which obviously has an order of magnitude more development put into it. The money wouldn’t even be going towards Lemmy where the real costs are since they are the ones actually hosting it all…
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$1.29 forever
I miss the days when buying something was actually an option
Everyone and their mother thinks they’re a SaaS provider.
I’d rather it be that then what we used to deal with… 6 month old apps that never got any more updates because the dev has no incentive to keep developing it.
Ultimately if it earns more money, people will do it, and I can’t blame people for wanting to earn more money because I’m sure most of us would do the same in that position. Like sure £1.99 to perma remove ads is great but I’m sure you can’t retire on that as a dev lol.
$17 is almost 20% less than it will cost me to see OPPENHEIMER in 70mm IMAX. The former lasts a year, the latter 3 hours. Which will be more engaging? 🤔
Your point makes no sense. If we are going by amount of work per hour / price, if Oppenheimer costs 17$,then sync should cost like 2c…
How much of that ticket price went to the projectionist? I feel that would be the equivalent of Sync in this comparison since the actual hosting and creation of the content is elsewhere, Sync is just one person who shows it to you
Subscription models only make sense for an app/service that have recurring costs.
In the case of Lemmy apps, the instances are the ones with recurring hosting costs, not the apps.
If an app doesn’t have recurring hosting costs, it only makes sense to have one up front payment and then maybe in app purchases to pay for new features going forward.
Subscription models for an app that’s not hosting anything is just the dev wanting a constant revenue stream, no matter how they try to word it.
Development is a recurring cost
You will own nothing, and you will be happy.
Get the duckduckgo app and go to settings and enable the BETA feature to disable trackers from apps on your device.
You will see blank spots that say sponsored content but you will not see the actual ads. Good enough for me.
I can’t see ads (only a placeholder) due to my adblocker, but cannot purchase a subscription anyway (no play store)
Spoiler
The dev is working on one and it’ll be released soon
There is now
While I really like the app, I still find the communities need to grow before I invest in it. So far it’s been great. Just feels a little empty.
Maybe just launched with the beta, but on my menu on the left there’s an option to remove ads
Yes. But please update to the latest version. This option JUST got introduced.
Where are they putting the ads? I haven’t seen one yet and would prefer to not be hoodwinked.
In the feed. If you have a DNS adblocker they don’t appear.
That explains it. I haven’t seen any ads or even placeholders.
I’ve already seen some placeholders in my feed. Not sure yet if the ads aren’t ready yet, or if my myriad adblockers are doing their jobs.
blokada is the way my friend … not only for sync … but for every other app
I don’t have any ads and i haven’t put down any money yet so I’m hoping that just never changes
Memmy for Lemmy baby!
That one’s an iOS exclusive though, while Sync is an Android exclusive.
Well, boo. I was gonna check but I’m perfectly happy with Memmy so didn’t. Thanks for the intel!
Yeah it’s very similar to Apollo which is a godsend
It sounds like there will be a one time purchase option (Sync Pro) but I haven’t seen a timeline.
Personally, I’m doing the monthly subscription until Pro comes out. I appreciate that the dev got this beta up and running so quickly so I’m treating the subscription as a “thanks for your hard work.” Like you, I’m overburdened with subscriptions, though, and can’t maintain that long term.