• Rubén@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 year ago

    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

    • Danny M@lemmy.escapebigtech.info
      0·
      1 year ago

      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

        • Danny M@lemmy.escapebigtech.info
          01·
          1 year ago

          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

          • HaruAjsuru@lemmy.world
            1·
            1 year ago

            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.

  • hackris@lemmy.ml
    3·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • imkali@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    3·
    1 year ago

    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

  • Max-P@lemmy.max-p.me
    0·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      1 year ago

      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.

    • Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee
      1·
      1 year ago

      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.

  • taiyang@lemmy.world
    01·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • No_@lemm.ee
    02·
    1 year ago

    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.