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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 2 years ago by golden_zealot@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

I really like Voyager.

[–] Thermal_shocked@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

DNS adblocking. I don't see those ads.

[–] AlexisFR@jlai.lu 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Unfortunately this break LTE internet.

[–] Thermal_shocked@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What phone? Never had an issue with private DNS on Android. Unfortunately IOS requires it setup on every connection, but works.

https://adguard-dns.io/en/public-dns.html

https://youtu.be/ovqRt_qGV7c?si=iMxKS_tMMyKJV6ie

Make sure you restart the app after applying settings, should pickup new DNS and poof, 95% of ads are gone instantly.

https://d3ward.github.io/toolz/adblock.html

[–] ModsAreCopsACAB@lemm.ee -1 points 2 years ago

I'm using Blokada. Would you consider Adguard to be better? And if so could you explain why? I'm not sure I see the difference.

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

i bought boost the first day because i loved boost for reddit but, honestly, i'm loving eternity even more these days.

it's on neo store/fdroid and the repo is here: https://codeberg.org/Bazsalanszky/Eternity

[–] library_napper@monyet.cc -1 points 2 years ago

Kinda sketch if they're not on the official fdroid repo

[–] bitwolf@lemmy.one -1 points 2 years ago

Sync Pro (paid) Jerboa (free)

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ToxicWaste@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Jerboa doesn't have ads..?

[–] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Not even one ad, it's open source same with Eternity.

I switched from Jerboa to Eternity because of the 0.19 update fuss.

[–] rozlav@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

What's this fuss about ? I was a Eternity user before Lemmy (I don't recall the name of this app, when it waS reddit) edit:typo

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[–] kia@lemmy.ca -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The title is a little disingenuous. Claiming this is a property of the Boost app isn't correct... It's just an ad network.

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[–] ModsAreCopsACAB@lemm.ee -2 points 2 years 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.

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