It’s fine to donate to developers for making good products, I do it often… it’s altogether different for a developer of an app to ask their user base to pay in order to remove ads that other apps of equal quality that are free to use don’t have.
To each their own, we all have things we like to burn money on.
You can still donate to those too. It’s good to support the dev(s) of any app you like, FOSS or not.
It’s fine to donate to developers for making good products, I do it often… it’s altogether different for a developer of an app to ask their user base to pay in order to remove ads that other apps of equal quality that are free to use don’t have.
To each their own, we all have things we like to burn money on.