I’m pissed that I bought simple gallery pro because it respected my privacy, then because the dev sold his soul for a ton of money, it now rapes my privacy

    • M500@lemmy.ml
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      10 months ago

      It has nothing to do with third party app stores.

      Someone made an app that was genuinely very good. Then a company wanted to buy the app. The developer sold the app. The company loaded it with whatever spyware they wanted and pushed it in an update.

      Now the app is garbage. Sadly it happens all the time. It happened to me right after I bought a year subscription to private internet access.

      But to be clear this can happen on any platform or App Store official or not.