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The type of ads are really frustrating (self.syncforlemmy)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by MayaHorsewoman to c/syncforlemmy@lemmy.world

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I get the reason for there being Ads in the sync app. I don't have the funds to pay for ultra and that's also fine.

But what I find concerning is the type of ads I see. I live in Germany for clarification and most of what I see are websites acting like news sites (right leaning at times). When I accidentally tap on them my browser immediately blocks the website for unsafe practices on their end.

Now I really don't mind the ads in apps if it's the usual app ad, random products or Amazon type of things. But I hate it when every ad is a boomer ass clickbait ad about how solar energy is definitely worse than anything else.

This is my main complaint about sync right now and it might push me to stop using it again as the ads are also very frequent...

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[-] TheInsane42@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Oh yeah, that definitely should be the case why it is not working for me, I am using the GitHub version which is 2.1.1…

On 11 and later that could be the case indeed.

But I think now I’m confused did you actually manage to get rid of the Sync ads blocks? Or you have the block with the “empty” ads?

The ads is gone, but the block is still there with only the text "Sponsored content" in it.

In the Lsposed app within the MinMinGuard section you have selected Sync for Lemmy there too or only within the MinMinGuard settings?

I've selected every app in the MinMinguard section in LSposed. That is where you specify for which app LSposed should activate the module. In the MinMinGuard settings (open the app itself) I selected whitelist as mode (block everywhere except where specified) and I whitelisted 2 games, so they can run ads for in-game goodies and the rest get their ads blocked.

I am a bit lost in your third point, maybe can I see some screenshots?

When you open MinMinGuard you see 3 tabs at the top, auto, blacklist and whitelist.

auto: you can't select anything and the app decides for you when to block ads and when not.
blacklist: everything gets to show ads by default and you select which apps get blocked.
whitelist: nothing gets to show ads by default and you select which apps are allowed to show ads.

Select the option you want. I went for the whitelist mode. Alas, LSPosed doesn't have that option, there you need to activate MinMinGuard for every new app you install, but at least after that you're safe from ads when using the whitelist mode..

[-] kratoz29@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I see, well, sadly it wasn't working for me, it didn't block ads (I'm using A13) and at the end of the day it didn't block the Sync squares which was what I was looking for, hopefully this apps gets another revision or update to make it working again as intended in newest Android release, because the concept is more cool than just blocking ads DNS/host file based for sure!