If you pay the 1 time and removal then no ads, no subscription, and then there's no tracking either. It's only part of the Google Ads which isn't used if you remove ads.
I like FOSS apps, but if a closed source app is better I'm going to use it. Oh no Sync has ads! Pay to remove ads and all the Google tracking is gone.
A lot of people came to Lemmy because Spez is a cunt and Lemmy is the closest replacement to Reddit, not because they bum off FOSS.
Also, dude you have an Xbox, that literally is spyware. By your own logic, you should be running DRM free open-source games on a Linux OS that doesn't have any closed-source launchers.
As much as I'd love to ditch Reddit completely, I just had to use information from a few Reddit posts to fix an issue on my home server. I hate to say it, but Reddit is extremely valuable.
I don't like traditional TV, I don't want to plan my TV watching or my day around when shows air. I'll stream what I want when I want it.
The majority of my viewing is YouTube and anime, you can't even get that on normal TV.