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The Boost android client for Lemmy is displaying these dark pattern ads pretending to be system notifications. What security/privacy conscious Lemmy clients do you recommend? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 months ago by golden_zealot@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] rmayayo@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (6 children)

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

[–] dannym@lemmy.escapebigtech.info 0 points 10 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] haruajsuru@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I don't think Boost is open source, and you can pay a one time fee to permanently remove the ads

[–] dannym@lemmy.escapebigtech.info -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

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

[–] jackpot@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

HOW FUCKING DARE THEY NOT WORK FOR FREE, FLAIL THEM NOW

[–] haruajsuru@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months 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.

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