Many (most? It's just north America I guess) countries don't give a shit about piracy and would never allow an ISP to give out ips and personal information to companies so they could sue. So, depending where you live, no VPN needed.
I'm one of those with subscription fatigue but that's not a problem with sync because you don't have to subscribe. You can just pay the one time ad-free option and that's all right with me. I honestly don't know what's going on with the vitriol against sync on lemmy. I think most people don't realise that nobody needs to subscribe to sync, you can use it for free with ads OR you pay the one time fee and have it ads free forever without the other subscription features.
No that's not correct. sync for Reddit already had the ultra subscription. The problem was he would have had to up the price on the sub substantially to cover the Reddit API fees.
Honestly a third sub option for lifetime wouldn't have been a timesink. Just like the old version had. I guess it was more of a time waste removing the third option.
Yeah but no lifetime option anymore. That's sadly a no go for me. I had pro and ultra lifetime before and I would've bought ultra again but I don't do subscriptions anymore. I don't know. Liftoff isn't too bad.
Are you blind?