Appreciation post for Liftoff not collecting user data or injecting ads.
I was looking forward to trying Sync today now that it's live, but my enthusiasm was immediately dampened after seeing the "Data Safety" section on the Google Play store.
Liftoff has been great, and want to say thanks for making an awesome app. This will continue to be my daily driver.
Edit: for clarity, because the post got way bigger than I expected.
Sync looks like a fantastic app, and the dev/s should charge whatever they feel is fair for their efforts, even if that's through the usual ads + ad tracking.
My intent was just to post here in /c/Liftoff to thank the Liftoff devs for managing to somehow offer an awesome app without any of that.
You do realize that two people can have the same information, but make wildly different choices based on that, and that your choice isn't necessarily better... Right?
Because it really sounds like you don't quite understand that last part.
Yeah. This confirms it. Either someone makes the same choice as you did, or they're stupid. That's it. There's no conceivable reason in the universe somebody might know about the downsides but prefer to use Google services, or Microsoft services, or many others.
Hospitals, big companies, software engineers - nobody ever uses proprietary software, or they're entirely run by idiots. Congrats.