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To each their own, but I find this decision really misguided.

It's her money, not mine, so whatever, but l do not expect her to turn a profit in, rather the opposite.

In my view, the cross section of "IfR" users and people willing to subscribe monthly is rather small (especially if the money mostly goes to reddit - assuming I could afford it, I, for instance, would rather fund an open system like Lemmy).

And if Apollo's dev Christian Selig decided that it wasn't worth it with an already established paying user base, who already has a strong culture of subscriptions and exaggerated pricings, and one of the highest volume of users, at what probably was the peak usage of the platform; I don't see how a small app like IfR can survive.

That, or Christian made a pretty expensive mistake...

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[–] fancyError@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I did try that method but for some reason it wouldn't install. Seemed like it was conflicting with an already installed app (had already uninstalled it) so by using Android studio I could change the package name at the same time.

Also did see some people mention it might be a bad idea to give your API key out to randos on the internet which is fair enough.

[–] einderjam@iusearchlinux.fyi 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Giving out such an API key is essentially what the infinity dev does, up until the 1st of July at least.

Reviewing the colab's code, I did not find anything susceptible to leak your API key (or other info) to the author.

However, I have also seen users offering to build apks for others (which implies giving out API keys on top of installing software from a random guy). That seems indeed very dangerous.

[–] fancyError@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Yea thats true, and tbf I did give them mine and i've not had my identity stolen as of yet lol.

The main reason I did mine manually was that I was getting a conflict error when installing so i wanted to change the package name too.

I ended up basicly using the Collab thing as a guide on what to change so it did come in handy.