If you weren't lying, you would have told us what the "real issue" is

This is a feature, not a bug

Who the absolute hell is doing this? I've had very few packages stolen in my decades of experience. Maybe, 1 or 2 out of hundreds?...

Thank you for doing all of this including writing this post. The haters are binary thinkers who can't be bothered with pesky things like "context" and "reality"

I'm kind of confused how this is so controversial or unexpected. You're using commercial software for free, ad support should be expected. It definitely sounded like and was confirmed to be out of the dev's hands, it's Google's ad platform. If you can spend $3.50 USD to remove ads it's not a concern.

I love free software but people also need to feed their families. This guy chose software as a way to do that. Being opposed to ads is great but either cough up the 3.50 for an app you'll likely use thousands of hours or don't. Don't shame the guy for allowing it to also be used "free" with ads.

I know landlords that work way fucking harder than I do, and I have a "real job". I get that a lot of landlords are assholes but in the end this is the system and some are playing the game as fairly as they can (being reasonable, very rarely raising rent, attending to maintenance themselves and in a timely manner) while others are cheating (not maintaining the property, raising rent, forcing tenants to sign burdensome leases, etc). Stop lumping them together.

I had no idea you could call people with Instagram. And why should I know that? It's a god-damned photo app.

No, they don't. I've no idea what this is. No fomo

The idea that an iPhone is more secure or private is a farce you've been sold. It's true that Google makes more money off of tracking behavior and selling ads but it's absolutely laughable to believe Apple doesn't do that also. They just focus their efforts more on entrapping you in an ecosystem where you don't feel even able capable of giving another tech company money besides them. Need proof, look at the fact that lawmakers had to force them to use USBC. The excuse they gave for not doing it was flimsy af. They obviously were looking to keep profiting from their shitty lightning cables. Never once did the fact that it's outlandishly inconvenient to need a different cable than your friends with Androids for charging your phone ever register as a factor for apple. Proprietary and overpriced. That's the entire business model.

According to republicans Europe is hell on Earth tho

Been running a Linux based os for coming up on two years. I still definitely do not care about this.

Alright China shills, you can stop changing the subject to how Google and the US are the "same".

The troops advanced into central parts of Beijing on the city's major thoroughfares in the early morning hours of 4 June and engaged in bloody clashes with demonstrators attempting to block them, in which many people – demonstrators, bystanders, and soldiers – were killed. Estimates of the death toll vary from several hundred to several thousand, with thousands more wounded.[15][16][17][18][19][20]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests_and_massacre

If you lived in China you'd likely not know about this, since people who talk about it go to prison.

Yeah the US is exactly like this so let's not talk about the Chinese government being awful to their citizens /s