Even if I would pirate an app it wouldn't become open source. I couldn't contribute. I couldn't report bugs, suggest ideas, fork and apply my own stuff.

[–] pgetsos@kbin.run 8 points 8 months ago

I only pirate apps with no alternatives and very aggressive monetization like 100€/year subscriptions....

[–] ladfrombrad@lemdro.id 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

We've had a no piracy rule over in the Android subs/communities for years and the funny thing is, by time we ever got to someone trying to post a pirated APK the community themselves tore them a new arsehole.

Easiest rule to enforce when the community will absolutely hiss at you. Love em.

edit: a fun talking point I suppose is YouTube, and its app. We got a lot of people arguing that Newpipe 'was piracy' and I even had many debates with other members/mods about is it, or isn't it piracy?

My view it's a website that you can parse even with other tools like yt-dl, and if Youtube.com wanted to stop use of Newpipe / Revanced whatever they could in the blink of an eye.

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

I had to 'pirate' geometry dash apk as only the lite version was on the play store. I'd already payed for the full version on Steam and iOS.

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago

I kinda pirated Spotify (xmanager). I believe Tidal is one I would actually subscribe too if I had the income.