I would much prefer this piece of shit die in obscurity, thanks
Pretty sure that's Google's deal. I don't think the dev gets to decide which ads they show you.
ETA: Also, just buy the app. It's a few dollars, it helps pay for the development, and you never have to see any ads.
Fr. Buy the app. Make your life better.
Non-Play Store Tablet. Bought the app, still get the ads... Pi hole for the win!
Bought the app, still get the ads...
That.... sounds like something that you should reach out to @rmayayo@lemmy.world and talk about.
Love me pi hole
Why the fuck do we buy apps when the mobile website should work the fucking same for free?
The app offers different functionality and designs, which someone has to spend time making or maintaining
Lemmy has a lot of different options for how you can access it between the different front ends, open / closed source, or free / paid. You're encouraged to find the options that work best for you
I like Boost, and I'm happy to do a one time payment for it
You are welcome to use that if you prefer.
The mobile website and its functionality depend on the admins of each instance. I don't expect server admins to also be UX designers, and neither of those things are free. Lemmy is a free software platform, but it costs time and effort to run it.
Also, native apps can take advantage of system resources without needing the overhead of the browser. I'm fine paying for someone to undertake that additional burden.
Yikes, only Voyager offers a good mobile web interface, and it is definitely a slower experience than Boost, Sync, Summit... Heck even Voyager standalone app.
The are so many awesome free Lemmy apps, it's weird that some people pay for them...
Those free Lemmy apps cost time and effort to create and maintain; if people want to give their stuff away for free, that's their business. In any case, I tried those other apps, and I didn't like them (likely because they've put hobbyist levels of effort into them rather than a paid-worker's amount). And because they're free, I would never dream of asking for more features (which is tantamount to saying, "Yo, dev. Give me more free shit!").
Besides, we're talking about a few dollars to support a single dev. Not like Ruben has teams of people working for him in some faceless megacorp making billions of dollars.
Boost has the features I like with the layout I like, and I paid a few dollars mainly as a tip to the dev, which just happens to come with the added benefit of no ads.
Im sure for many it is to support a developer who remains dedicated and has built rapport with their users.
It's why I bought Sync Pro (twice), and Synfonium, despite there being plenty of FLOSS alternatives.
You get... Ads?
Whilst developers can ban specific ads, they can't really vet them beforehand. I think you can opt out of political ads (or maybe could at one point), but technically the ad you see is just for another app.
As an alternative solution to the ones already posed by others, you can use "Google Opinion Rewards" to get enough play store credit to buy the app. Every so often it'll just ask if you googled "Ninja Coffee Bar" (literally), and give you 10-25 cents for answering, and typically a good bit more for any follow-up questions ("How helpful were the results", etc).
I use that money to pay for YouTube. It used to reduce it to paying every other month, but I don't get nearly as many as I used to. Now I barely get anything. I think don't of mine about to expire actually, since it's been so long since I've had enough to cover it (and it won't do partial payment afaik)
Honestly the ads are why I quit using boost when it came out. Jerboa is completely ad free with a similar enough UI that it's not that hard of a transition.
Connect is simple and ad free as well. I've been using it since I joined Lemmy as it was the closest I could find to RIF.
Regardless, there are plenty of options out there.
Truth social is a FOSS social media. The app is just, based on you liking other FOSS social medias, recommending apps in the same category.
(Also, would anyone on lemmy use truth social seriously?)
Maybe if they were some kind of political or psychological researcher...?
It's open source? Maybe I'll make some PRs... But honestly that's shocking to me and huge. Do I support Truth Social now? Wild.
They are open source because(as far as i know) they copied the code of mastodon, slightly changed it, almost got sued and released a zip file of the code on their website to respect the terms of the AGPLv3 license
But details dont matter
Siphoning money from truth social seems like the best case for an ad you were never going to click on anyway
This is a good point
This is also how I feel every time I scroll by it. Positive thinking lol, although I'll probably get the paid version soon.
Buy the app or use a DNS adblocker. There is no relationship between advertisers and developers. That's the technology world destroyed by marketing that we live in now.
still don't see why google haven't included politics or political ads under their sensitive ad topics opt outs. :/
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It's been a while since I've done mobile ad dev, I believe you can blacklist specific ads, but it's like a full-time job to monitor them
Just block the ads
adaway works well if you are rooted
Muahahahhaaaa
Haven't got that yet, Google tracking is still pretty sure I will play junk mobile games that look nothing like their advertisements. I guess if it gets bad I can switch though (I got tired of HeGetsUs back in Reddit, but at least here we have better choices).
Community of the Android app Boost for Lemmy
