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The type of ads are really frustrating (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by MayaHorsewoman@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/syncforlemmy@lemmy.world

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I get the reason for there being Ads in the sync app. I don't have the funds to pay for ultra and that's also fine.

But what I find concerning is the type of ads I see. I live in Germany for clarification and most of what I see are websites acting like news sites (right leaning at times). When I accidentally tap on them my browser immediately blocks the website for unsafe practices on their end.

Now I really don't mind the ads in apps if it's the usual app ad, random products or Amazon type of things. But I hate it when every ad is a boomer ass clickbait ad about how solar energy is definitely worse than anything else.

This is my main complaint about sync right now and it might push me to stop using it again as the ads are also very frequent...

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[-] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 0 points 1 year ago

I went through each item on the cookie banner and declined everything (the banner isn't compliant). Since don't that I just see a grey square as a placeholder for where the ads should be.

[-] rist097@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

I dont think its Sync problem. You probably visited similar websites few times and now the ad service is serving you these kind of ads.

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[-] LoveSausage@lemmygrad.ml -3 points 1 year ago

In really don't get it, why use it? Good UI? Really, that's it?

[-] LoveSausage@lemmygrad.ml -4 points 1 year ago

Ok so why not just donate to the Foss apps instead? The huge amounts that went to sync would have made any Foss app at least just as good.

You do you, I just don't get it.

[-] Thehalfjew@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Maybe? But I know what I'm getting with Sync. Donations to FOSS don't guarantee anything.

And really, once we start talking about donating to free software with the expectation of specific returns, we're basically talking about paying for software. If a specific set of FOSS is only good when people pay for it, there's a problem with the incentivization to work on that set of software.

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