• No_@lemm.ee
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    9 个月前

    Blokada, never seen a single ad in any of my apps. It’s a battery hog, but it works like a charm since I can’t get access to my router for a pi-hole.

  • imkali@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    9 个月前

    Jerboa (FOSS. Play Store + F-Droid)

    Voyager (FOSS. Play Store + F-Droid + PWA + iOS App Store)

    Thunder (FOSS. Play Store + IzzyOnDroid + iOS App Store)

    Eternity (FOSS. Play Store + F-Droid)

    edit: formatting

  • Rubén@lemmy.world
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    9 个月前

    Boost dev here. There should be an Ad icon on the top right to report the ad. Not sure why it is not showing in this case. I will try to block those ads in the AdMob console. Edit: Done

    • Danny M@lemmy.escapebigtech.info
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      9 个月前

      I’m not a boost user, but why does boost have ads exactly? Why don’t you just ask users to buy a license a la grayjay? Make it 0.99 or less. This has a few advantages:

      • You’ll make more per user than you ever will with ads
      • Users won’t be tracked endlessly
      • It’s good PR for the app

      Also quick question, where is the source code for Boost? I can’t seem to find it

        • Danny M@lemmy.escapebigtech.info
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          9 个月前

          I don’t think Boost is open source

          oh, so that’s why it has ads, they don’t care about their users… alright… I’m not interested in this conversation anymore

          • HaruAjsuru@lemmy.world
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            9 个月前

            This is a bad mindset. Even though FOSS software is a good thing, but there is nothing wrong to make money from their hard work, you cannot and should not force developers to work for free if they don’t want to.

            If you want free software then there are FOSS alternative options out there and nobody forces you to use Boost.

  • taiyang@lemmy.world
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    9 个月前

    Idk, I’ve tried a few but still like Boost; just can’t get into Jerboa or Liftoff, which I tried. It’s mostly just their ad network being meh — though I mostly just get crappy fake gameplay ads, and not enough to bother me. I’m not even sure if they’re targeting me, cause if they are, they’re pretty bad at it.

    Unfortunately I’m sure the app developer doesn’t get much say, virtually all mobile app networks are cancer.

      • BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca
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        9 个月前

        Not even one ad, it’s open source same with Eternity.

        I switched from Jerboa to Eternity because of the 0.19 update fuss.

        • rozlav@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          9 个月前

          What’s this fuss about ? I was a Eternity user before Lemmy (I don’t recall the name of this app, when it waS reddit) edit:typo

  • BoofStroke@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    9 个月前

    This is why ad blockers should always be used. Small devs don’t have relationships with advertisers or control over what ad networks will do.

    Or you can pay once and be done with them. I think the price of a burger is not a big ask for something you use every day.

    I do both.

  • hackris@lemmy.ml
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    9 个月前

    Please. For the love of god, NEVER use a proprietary app to use a piece of FOSS software. I think it’s kind of sad that we have this amazing FOSS social network and people use fucking proprietary software to use it.

    • voxel@sopuli.xyz
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      9 个月前

      i use sync. there’s nothing even close to the quality of the client. (The onlt client that implements material you in a fun and usable way, sync is usable one-handed)
      I had been using Liftoff for a while (before switching to Sync as soon as it came out), which i quite liked but it feels a lot worse than sync

      • Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml
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        9 个月前

        (The onlt client that implements material you in a fun and usable way, sync is usable one-handed)

        Touchscreen keyboards and their consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

    • pirrrrrrrr@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      9 个月前

      Open-source it a better interface then.

      Until it’s as useful as at least Sync for Lemmy, people will use 3rd party proprietary apps

      • hackris@lemmy.ml
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        9 个月前

        I mean isn’t Lemmy licensed under the AGPL? I’m just asking because AFAIK a proprietary client is not even allowed under this license.

        • SeriousBug@infosec.pubEnglish
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          9 个月前

          You couldn’t make a proprietary server. Client is fine, AGPL doesn’t apply when you are accessing the server over a public API.

          • Preston Maness ☭@lemmygrad.ml
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            9 个月前

            AGPL doesn’t apply when you are accessing the server over a public API.

            The AGPL does apply when interacting with the covered work (Lemmy server) over a network. A proprietary client would still nevertheless be required, upon request, to furnish you with the source code of the covered work it is talking to over the network (the Lemmy server).

            • boyi@lemmy.sdf.org
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              9 个月前

              Do you really know what you are talking about? I think you’re bullshitting. We are talking about propriety client which doesnt modified the source codes of the server.

      • Auzy@beehaw.org
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        9 个月前

        Boost don’t operate the Ad network…

        And, if you pay for the app, they disappear. I agree ads suck, but you can’t really blame boost for this. Even when I did have ads though, honestly, I never saw ads like this

  • willybe@lemmy.ca
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    9 个月前

    I take it schools aren’t teaching tech literacy. We wouldn’t want the kids to get in the way of our overlord marketing agencies.

    • MiddledAgedGuy@beehaw.org
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      9 个月前

      I wonder if they ever really have? When I was in school they taught you how to use a computer, but not what the computer was doing or how it worked.

      I’m not too connected to the educational sector anymore but anecdotally it seems like becoming tech literate has a growing stigma (it’s always had a stigma). Happily ignoring what it’s doing while it’s actively abusing you.