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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I have Boost, but I haven't seen any ads like that before. The main one I use is Jerboa though.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I like Voyager a lot but it might be iOS only.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

No it is not, even though the Android app also uses that weird style

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait, Boost has ads? I've literally never seen an ad.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

have you installed anything like pihole or your own dns?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Personally I like Connect even though it's not FOSS because it's layout is similar to RiF.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (7 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.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I use the webpage as a webapp. It's adless.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I paid $3.49 to support the developers and the ads go away as a bonus.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lemmy website does provide official PWA app.

On iOS: Safari > Lemmy website > Hit share button > Add to home screen. On android, I assume steps will be similar.

I wholeheartedly recommend PWA app as such is published by the publisher of website itself, and I don’t need to download it either from official or 3rd party store.

In case you don’t know, PWA is basically a web app, running using your browser engine, which has almost same look-n-feel of native app.

Wiki: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_web_app

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Connect does not have ads

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Wefwef. It's so normal.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I'm reading this on Boost (once off payment) and no ads...

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