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.
Indeed.
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
Awesome, thank you.
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
I don’t think Boost is open source, and you can pay a one time fee to permanently remove the ads
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
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.
HOW FUCKING DARE THEY NOT WORK FOR FREE, FLAIL THEM NOW
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
Your lemmy app has ads???
Use F-Droid, Google store is a malware vendor at this point.
I use Connect for lemmy, it’s really great and ad-free.
Connect rarely makes it on these lists, but I think it’s fantastic.
I am using Voyager & Eternity and both have no ads.
And they are free
Why would you need an app when an account settings page and a web interface for posts exist? What need is that combination not meeting for you?
Yup, lemmy works fine in a browser.
Also basically no apps support mod and admin actions or do it weird.
I’ll say that DMs could be a bit better in the browser, but otherwise it’s fine.I don’t undestand the need to have an app for stuff that works just fine on browser. In my books less apps is always better. The desktop and mobile version of Lemmy on browser gets the job done perfectly and is way more polished looking aswell.
Thunder
DNS adblocking. I don’t see those ads.
Unfortunately this break LTE internet.
What phone? Never had an issue with private DNS on Android. Unfortunately IOS requires it setup on every connection, but works.
https://adguard-dns.io/en/public-dns.html
https://youtu.be/ovqRt_qGV7c?si=iMxKS_tMMyKJV6ie
Make sure you restart the app after applying settings, should pickup new DNS and poof, 95% of ads are gone instantly.
I’m using Blokada. Would you consider Adguard to be better? And if so could you explain why? I’m not sure I see the difference.
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.
Jerboa doesn’t have ads…?
Not even one ad, it’s open source same with Eternity.
I switched from Jerboa to Eternity because of the 0.19 update fuss.
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
For Reddit the original app was Infinity. Eternity is a fork of Infinity.
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.
