I would much prefer this piece of shit die in obscurity, thanks
If you don’t like ads and don’t want to pay to remove ads on a Lemmy app, use Voyager, Jerboa, or any of the other many FOSS, ad free, Lemmy apps.
I don’t understand why people are using apps with ads. What is the reason? Is connect selling my data and boost isn’t? Why would you pick an app that has ads when so many don’t?
Because apps with ads (specifically Sync that I use) have better UX and more features than anything open-source. Sorry but that’s it.
I guess everyone has their own level of tolerance for ads.
To me, anything ad supported has a terrible “UX”. I’d put up with a lot to avoid ads.
Obviously you don’t care about ads and that’s fine too
Better UX
Ads
IDK something isn’t adding up.
Yes because ads are the only thing making a difference in the comfort of using an app. Comfortable design (that doesn’t try to cram a million things into a small phone screen) and intuitive navigation mean nothing I guess.
Not cramming things into a phone screen
Ads
Are we in the same reality?
Perhaps you could get off your high open-source horse and try reading what I actually wrote. I’m talking about cramming in a million buttons and 0.1 line height so there are 20 comments shown at once. I don’t need my mobile app to look like old.reddit.com, I need it to be actually readable and usable from a small screen. Ads (which are shown in the feed and can be scrolled past) have nothing to do with that.
Lol sync users are so brainwashed and will say anything to justify it. Connect is so nice and usable, i haven’t had a single issue with it since I started using it months ago. Jerboa has also come a long way, but was a little raw at the time and so I mostly got used to connect.
I’m legitimately confused because I use Boost and don’t see ads.
I assume my PiHole stops them on my home network, and maybe DDG does elsewhere? Not 100% sure, but it works for now.
I started using Boost since it has user tagging. Didn’t want to pay for the full version until I’m sure I want to stick with it, so ads it is.
I should stop being lazy and buy it asap tho. I’ve been happy with it for a while now.
Imagine believing that Boost specifically developed their own ad network and dictate what is/isn’t on it…
If you’re not capable of dictating what appears in your own company’s product, maybe that’s something to rethink?
Should Ruben vet the entire Lemmyverse while he’s at it so he can “dictate what appears in his product?”
As a solo developer with limited resources, one has four choices:
• Choose an existing ad network and do the best you can within its content preferences,
• Put a paywall on your app’s features and hope enough people will actually buy it,
• Work for free, sacrificing your own livelihood, or
• Don’t develop the app.
Clearly they all involve a compromise of one form or another, and I trust that Ruben put a lot of thought into the decision.
It’s not a choice you get. There’s only a handful of ad networks out there, and you get to choose one. If you don’t do that, the only other option is to make people pay for your stuff - which most won’t do because they’re so accustomed to ads.
You can’t force the ad networks to rethink. As a dev, your choice would be to completely paywall the app.
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.
I don’t get the tribalism around apps.
Somme are good, others less-so.
None are worth putting up with ads for.
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.
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
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adaway works well if you are rooted
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).
Muahahahhaaaa
Can’t you pay a $3.99 one time fee to remove the ads??
