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submitted 2 years ago by pedz@lemmy.ca to c/boostforlemmy@lemmy.world

Using Boost for Lemmy, I got an obvious political ad from the right asking to sign a petition to scrap the gun "ban" in Canada (it's a registry not a ban).

Now I understand this is an ad but I don't appreciate having propaganda from the right injected into my browsing on lemmy. Have better ads, or let us report them.

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[-] Bondrewd@lemmy.world 43 points 2 years ago

How are you okay with ads being injected at all?

[-] rdyoung@lemmy.world 54 points 2 years ago

OP is using an app to browse the fediverse. Apps are not free to develop and the devs need to eat. I use sync and I'm paying for ultra so I can both support the dev and not have to see ads even though I do block ads system wide

[-] Bondrewd@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

So if it is my livelihood, I should be able to manipulate people?

I was feeling inhibited to do so but it makes more sense coming from that perspective.

[-] boyi@lemmy.sdf.org 28 points 2 years ago

So if it is my livelihood, I should be able to manipulate people?

Where above has this been mentioned?

[-] Bondrewd@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

In the serving ads as a form of getting to be paid part?

[-] boyi@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 2 years ago

Ok. If that's so, from the same sentence I can conclude that OP stated that working is a form of manipulation and nobody should work, ever. But, NO. No need to put words into one's mouth unless it's specifically written as such.

[-] Bondrewd@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

What? I have been talking about ads all along. If you reacted to me, you reacted to me asking about ads.

[-] kratoz29@lemm.ee 14 points 2 years ago
[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

On our own

Going down the only road we've ever known

[-] pedz@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 years ago

I tolerated them when using Boost but it may soon be a thing of the past.

[-] Patch@feddit.uk 12 points 2 years ago

You can pay for ad-free Boost. It is not a lot of money. Boost is my favourite app, and in my mind it was well worth it.

[-] JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago
[-] fushuan@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

I tried it but I can't stand the interface. It feels so wasteful. It's like ios.

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