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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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[–] Auzy@beehaw.org 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I use boost. it costs barely anything to remove ads

[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is not an ad, this is pure deception

[–] Auzy@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago

Boost don't operate the Ad network..

And, if you pay for the app, they disappear. I agree ads suck, but you can't really blame boost for this. Even when I did have ads though, honestly, I never saw ads like this

[–] AlexisFR@jlai.lu 0 points 10 months ago

I think your ads got hacked.

[–] kia@lemmy.ca -2 points 10 months ago (2 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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[–] xploit@lemmy.world -2 points 10 months ago

I used my Google rewards credit to remove ads in Sync, because I ain't paying for that shit and they would have expired anyway.

As long as you go out every now and then (to shops or next to shops) and consistently answer the rewards stuff (doesn't need to be true it seems, just consistent) then you'll eventually be in the same boat as me and probably many others where you'll eventually have nothing to spend the rewards on as you'll have bought all the apps you need and will ditch the rewards in the end.

[–] EvokerKing@lemmy.world -3 points 10 months ago

Sync, but it still has ads. Honestly just get an adblocker, it's free.

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