• tungah@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Moreover, it looks like it’s gathering user info to third parties like messages, device or other IDs? Hmm 🤔

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      1 year ago

      If true that is a real deal breaker for me. The whole idea of Lemmy is to break away from exploitative data gathering from corporations. If they are data gathering to sell to third parties then what makes them any different than Reddit? 🫤

      If I had to guess most of that info is just to feed you ads, but that is already bad enough for me.

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        1 year ago

        I think we can all make our own conclusions. I mean, don’t get me wrong, the app looks great. But I think the subscription model and the data gathering maybe isn’t the right approach in this instance, since we’re talking about a different culture in Lemmy. This is not Reddit. I’d be happy with a simple, straight app purchase with no bs data mining, thank you very much.

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          1 year ago

          Any paid tier (ultra or eventually pro when it comes out) will have all the data gathering disabled. It’s purely just for whatever framework sync is using to serve ads.

    • redcalcium@lemmy.institute
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      1 year ago

      Those are the ads SDK, which is disabled if you subscribe to ultra or pay a one time purchase to remove ads (available later when the app is out of beta).

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        1 year ago

        LOL this is not how you gather data in a mobile app. There isn’t a GATHER_USER_DATA permission 🤣🤣🤣

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          1 year ago

          Ok then, how do you think it’s getting the user’s location data without access to the location permission, wifi, or Bluetooth?

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            1 year ago

            That’s only one of the many data points an app could get. Simply tracking user’s network behaviour would be far more valuable than getting their location data.

            Oh great they’re in the US…