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

The ads come from an ad network where there is very little visibility into what's going to be displayed in your app. And bad people also keep managing to get their ads published even though the ad network doesn't allow them

And it all ties into the whole targeted advertising, where they also make sure very few people get the bad ad, and tries to target people they think may be more susceptible to these kinds of tactics. Depending on the amount of interactivity allowed, the ad can even display two different things if it deems you too savvy to fall for it.

It's basically unescapable unless you only use apps without ads, or pay for the ad-free versions.

The whole advertising industry is sketchy, more news at 10.

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)

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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.

Voyager

It's a FOSS privacy respecting Lemmy client.

It's available on Android and IOS

You can also try it as a PWA: https://vger.app

Your lemmy app has ads???

Jerboa. It lacks some features, but it's the official app and it's also pretty minimalistic with its material you UI. Other than that Thunder is pretty good. They're both FOSS.

I start with whatever is on F-Droid, and narrow it down from there.

Jerboa was the only option there until recently. I see Voyager and Eternity are there now. I'll have to give them a try.

Eternity is great! free, no ads, and no lag while scrolling. it also supports swipe to go back from posts.

I use Connect for lemmy, it's really great and ad-free.

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.

Eternity.

As always, use free software. Look for Lemmy clients in F-Droid. Voyager is a good one.

Sync Pro (paid) Jerboa (free)

Install the fdroid apps. Eternity is a good example of a fdroid app for lemmy

I am using Voyager & Eternity and both have no ads.

I use Eternity, it's a fork of Infinity for reddit

Thanks for the warning, switching to Jerboa.

• Voyager for Lemmy
• NextDNS to kill basically all 3rd party ad networks and tracking

What about just not using a proprietary client for an open source social media platform? You'll find amazing FOSS Lemmy clients as well as a whole lot of other FOSS software on F-Droid. It's the best source for Android apps. Thunder is my personal favorite.

Thunder gets regular updates and is open source and ad free.

Use foss apps

I am on Connect, loving it

Use F-Droid, Google store is a malware vendor at this point.

Maybe I'm behind on my terms but does this count as a dark pattern?

It was my understanding that dark patterns are a thing designed to use a service in a way that they wouldn't normally intend to, like renew a subscription or leave privacy options to the benefit of the company instead of the user.

This just seems like a scam, or at best highly deceptive advertising? Like, for it to be a dark pattern it would have to actually be able to send you to some android update system, but it almost certainly isn't ever going to do that.

I really like Voyager.

DNS adblocking. I don't see those ads.

Jerboa works well

The dev has to do what they have to do to feed themselves. If you really like the app, deal with the ads or pay for the app. I personally can't deal with ads so I'm on Eternity for Lemmy (through the fdroid store)

Voyager, eternity, jerboa in that order