Currently #10 free social app on Google Play.

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      Because people donated their time to make them. You can’t blame anyone for not doing that.

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      There are free pc games as well, and paid ones. Free movies, and paid ones. Heck you can probably get a car for free, but most people prefer to pay for one. You can use the free apps all you want.

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      I’ve used them all and even considered staying with voyager. But after one hour of using boost I uninstalled all of them.

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        I worked my way through just about every Reddit client available for Android and Boost was the only one that wasn’t super annoying. I’m happy to support development of an app that I use every day, especially if it wouldn’t be available at all otherwise.

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      I tried the same argument here. Don’t bother. They don’t want to see it.

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        No, we see it - it’s just dumb. Having a free as in freedom and beer set of clients is great for lemmy - but also having market driven clients available is healthy for catering to individual preferences. Boost existing isn’t your problem - clients that you like exist and please go enjoy them. I’m not certain why you’re lurking here, is it just out of masochism? The person you’re replying to at least put out helpful information about the application.

        More choice is a good thing and four dollars for an app forever is extremely reasonable.

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          No, what’s dumb is people downvoting the factual information presented here. The initial comment in this chain is informative, and many people care about privacy and want to have that information. Why does it bother you and others to merely be presented with that information? Is it because it’s a reminder that you are willing to sell your privacy? If that’s the case I’d recommend you try to be less insecure about the fact you’re willing to sell your privacy over insignificant inconveniences. It’s the decision you’ve made, so own it. But a lot of people here care about our privacy and about feeding into the power of advertisers.

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            Then buy the ad free version or don’t use it. The initial comment here is FUD.

            If you’re worried about feeding the advertisers, then buying software is the best course of action. All software development takes time, and time is money. Sometimes, developers will give away their time for free, but demanding that someone do that is completely unreasonable.

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              No one demanded anything. The initial comment here was nothing but a presentation of facts. It’s legitimate information that people care about knowing. If you don’t want to be reminded about privacy and tracking, and FOSS alternatives then might I suggest reddit? It’s a site a lot like lemmy with the exception that the userbase largely doesn’t care about those things. You might feel right at home there, but a lot of us here left it over those sorts of reasons.

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                It is incorrect and misleading.

                See: https://lemmy.world/comment/3977158

                These are the kind of comments that make me want to stop writing FOSS. It’s more entitled than the people who come into my Discord and demand I answer their questions that are already answered in the readme.

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                  And what exactly is misleading? There are ads and analytics in this application.

                  These are the kind of comments that make me want to stop writing FOSS.

                  What the fuck are you talking about? People pointing out analytics and ads in other apps make you want to stop writing FOSS? Lmao, brother, if you don’t care about ads and tracking and are writing FOSS… I don’t want to use your app either. And I sure as fuck wouldn’t care if you stopped writing it.

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                    The list of ad trackers is inaccurate, and listing a crash analytics service as a tracker is misleading.

                    As for the comment, I meant this one in particular.

                    https://lemmy.world/comment/3975312

                    If people feel entitled to my work, I don’t want to work for them. Why do you think so much software includes ads? Because people expect to receive software for free. I’ve been maintaining several FOSS projects for over a decade and most people are very gracious, but some people assume everything should be FOSS and every FOSS developer should provide free support.

                    Did you know that you have to pay to list an app in both the App Store and the Play Store? Someone pays those costs, even when the app is free as in beer and free as in speech.

                    And as far as FOSS and ads go, some of the biggest FOSS projects in the world make a significant amount of their funding through advertising. I hate to break it to you, but the FOSS ecosystem is mostly funded through advertising, directly and indirectly.