• sanpo@sopuli.xyz
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    9 months ago

    Seems like Organic Maps aren’t saints either.

    Apparently the recent lack of updates on F-Droid is due to them including referral links for hotels and refusing to remove it or make it an opt-out feature…

    Here’s a relevant issue if anyone’s interested: https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps/issues/7218

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    Looking at the discussions it’s even worse, the devs try to argue that F-Droid is being unfair and referral links shouldn’t be “misclassified” as ads…

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      9 months ago

      Yeah they advertise no ads, but then have referral links to Kayak in their app. Seems like the main devs have gone off their rockers.

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      9 months ago

      While I agree that is not a great look, as long as they aren’t selling my location data and such I don’t really care. I only use it to go from a specific point A to point B, not look things up/find things.

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      9 months ago

      They’re also doing the same thing with Google Play - arguing that collecting user emails for osm login doesn’t count as collecting data.

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      9 months ago

      A lot of those people need to get a hobby. Arguing over definitions in someone else’s projects doesn’t count as a hobby.