That’s good for passwords, but it’s also the syncing of tabs and search history and stuff. When I’m working on my laptop I want to be able to easily find the random journal article I had open on my desktop.
I appreciate the convenience of cloud history is at odds with privacy. But being able to selfhost a syncing server, or to keep a private log on a cloud storage space that only my devices had access to should be possible… But it’s probably not a priority for many folks.
Does librewolf or any other alternatives offer syncing between devices? I know it’s not a great thing for privacy, but I find it really helpful for work to have easy access to different tabs, passwords and stuff between my phone, laptop and desktop. I would love to switch from mozilla, but that’s what’s currently keeping me…
You’re completely free to support the apps and developers you prefer, but I don’t think I understand what you mean by “keep misleading more unaware people”? The play store listing for Boost for Lemmy says “Contains ads.” and “In-app purchases” in multiple places (for one, it’s the the third line after the name and developer). Its really not misleading anyone. Do you have examples of Boost or the developer claiming it is ad free or FOSS? Or do you mean something else?
I don’t approve of predatory practices, so if you can provide any evidence I would be keen to change my 5 star review and stop using the app.
For sure, it’s worth letting people know if they aren’t aware. It’s been a while since I installed boost, but I remember there being very clear messages about the ads and tracking, explaining it was to compensate the developer for the time he spent converting the reddit client to lemmy, and with the option of a one time fee to completely avoid trackers and ads.
While I love it when things are truly FOSS, I understand that I pay my barber and my plumber for their time, and I don’t have a problem paying a one-off fee to buy software I want. What is exploitative are many subscription models, and all software that takes your money AND still monetises you (looking at you microsoft).
It’s good to make people aware of genuinely free alternatives. But I used jerboa, voyager and a few other lemmy clients and I’m much happier with Boost and it was worth every cent.
Does it do emoji predictions? I’ve got a few relationships that use a lot of emoji in chats, and the ability tomjusy type ‘salute’, ‘sad’, ‘kiss’ etc and get the emoji without scrolling through a library is what’s keeping me on Swiftkey.
I’m not American, so I assume I don’t have the full story. But i feel like everytime I hear about government shutdown / not passing budgets it’s republican politicians. Is that accurate? Or do both parties do it equally often?
Same for me. Jerboa was working fine yesterday, but today (despite showing my subscribed communities) it wouldn’t let me up vote or post showing a “login first” message. Even after logging out and back in, and my username/instance showing in the side panel, I don’t seemed to be considered logged in! But my account works fine in Connect (where I’m posting this from).
You’re awesome! Thanks. That’s wild that your can host your own syncsever, the community is brilliant.