Seems like it’s required by google admob to show any ads at all according to dev. Closed sourced software with an ad version option is becoming a nightmare for foss folks. Those devs don’t seem to have many options anymore to profit from their work in a privacy friendly way. A bit concerning.

I’m all for devs wanting to profit from their work since they are putting work into it and not everyone wants to open source the work they put countless hours into. Foss only folks have many other options compared to reddit where the number of popular open source apps aren’t that many.

But ad versions sadly seems to be very privacy unfriendly right now.

I know that I’m not on reddit…

I’m just pointing out the boost subreddit from reddit never got this many comments in any posts. I know the reason is federation and people sorting by ALL here often compared to sorting by subscriptions in reddit

Over 300 comments…I’ve never even seen so many in boost subreddit wtf. Did everyone from lemmy come here?

Wait…why are you here then?