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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My feed was full of “How to get pregnant” ads. And not the porn type, but the medical faceless mannequin type.
Not sure if I successfully blocked big tech to spy on me and they have no idea what to offer me…or they know somethinh (•_•)
Set your DNS to
dns.adblock-dns.comon your phone, and get uBlock Origin on your computer. It’s been so long since I’ve seen any ads.That DNS didn’t work for me.
dns.adguard.comworks and blocks 71% of ads according to this toolIt works, maybe you’ve misconfigured something.
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NextDNS is free, and blocks all the ads on Sync as well as most others elsewhere
doesn’t hide the empty spaces though, but oh well
I am using the non-rooted AdAway blocker and I am not seeing any empty space, in case you want to try.
I’m on rooted Adaway. No ads but spaces are there. Not a lot, though, so it’s easy to overlook.
Same setup, I hardly doubt his setup works better than this.
I’m running on a rooted android, magisk, lsposed and minminguard as chain to block ads and remove the ad spaces. I still have to see one ad I didn’t want. (And those in games for ‘goodies’ just run unwatched)
I’ll check if sync has ads here, but I doubt I’ll see them.
About the type of ads, no app developer has any control over what is shown, as they offerl the space to ad providers and they select the junk they place there.
Edit: Installed sync, added to lsposed list to run the minminguard module on, opened it and ‘sponsored content’ blocks, but no ads. (Saw one ad when I opened sync without the lsposed config change) I’m guessing I need to restart the device to get rid of the blocks which should hold the ads. (Or those blocks are standard and the regular content is replaced by sponsored content)
Edit 2: those sponsored content blocks are just standard blocks with either the ad or “sponsored content” as text. Uninstalled it again, as I prefer Liftoff.
Are you using another adblocker?
I installed minminguard because of your comment, but I can’t see it is helping at all, I had AdAway rooted version before so I never saw ads but the empty squares.
So both working have the same effect for me, is there any reason to have them both running?
I even enabled URL filtering but it still reports that no ads are being blocked.
I installed minminguard because of your comment, but I can’t see it is helping at all, I had AdAway rooted version before so I never saw ads but the empty squares.
Minminguard is an xposed module that I run via lsposed (xposed development halted, lsposed is a magisk module that needs you to activate minminguard for the app. (and then in minminguard either add the app to the blacklist or use the whitelist and don’t add it there) It’s a lot of hoops you need to jump trough.
However, the empty squares stay even with minminguard, as the app uses the same ‘message block’ for posts and ads. (at least that’s how it looks) WIth both running, it could well be possible that adaway already filtered before minminguard. Here it also showed 0 ads blocked (no other ad blocker), but I saw already several empty ad blocks. (so that counter isn’t to accurate) You could try with adaway temporary disabled to see what it does (and check if you missed one of the hoops).
I tried with AdAway off and using minminguard and now I got ads 😅
I think it is safe to assume it is doing absolutely nothing then.
I have it on in Lsposed and “System Framework” selected, I don’t know if I am doing anything wrong.
I have:
- Magisk (26.1) with zygisk enabled
- Zygisk - LSposed v1.8.6 (6712) installed and enabled in Magisk
- MinMinGuard 2.2.0 (‘fixed’ version from xda) installed and enabled in LSposed for all apps via hide uncheck everything and then active for every app I have (you can just activate for the app you want to test with, but ymmv, maybe it uses a system app to get the ads)
- in MinMinGuard I’ve used the whitelist option with 2 games activated in the list as I want to have ads there to get more goodies
It could be the version you use. I totally forgot I had a ‘fixed’ version for Android 11+ (it’s been running almost a year without issues/ads getting trough).
there is a button under privacy to revoche the gdpr consent.
i pressed it and i don’t have any ads (yet) just gray boxes
I’m still not getting any 🤫
Same, I never got ads. But just to thank dev for his impressive app, I bought the noads version even if I never saw one once. Go figure… I’m in Canada btw maybe there’s a prob with ads here I dunno
Also in Canada, also didn’t notice any ads, also paid for the ad-free experience anyways to support the app lol
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Immediately after reading this I saw an ad for intermittent fasting plans based on comparative finger length
I tried Sync but I like Jerboa better. Free, no ads
I never tried sync, or any other app. I started with Jerboa and very happy with it. I’m here to stay.
Here where? Because you’re in a Sync community. :-P
‘Here’ as in Lemmy Here.
Same here. Sync is a great app. It has a lot of great features.
But jerboa is the first lemmy app i used. I feel home when using jerboa even though it is still in development.
Voyager is on the App Store now as well: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/voyager-for-lemmy/id6451429762
We’re pretty spoiled tbh!
Jerboa is okay but ported Reddit apps with years of development behind them are better in my opinion.
Before Sync I used Connect (!lemmyconnect@lemmy.ca). It’s not all that different and it’s ad free (at least was for me, could’ve been Pihole doing its thing).
Strange. I’m also from Germany and I did not yet see any ads
I am in Austria. I am just getting simple ads - intermittent fasting these days for some reason.
ad is a boomer ass clickbait ad about how solar energy is definitely worse than anything else.
Is this an advert for a product or service? It sounds more like propaganda. Who is funding this stuff?
Could be all kinds of people, right wing shit exists everywhere but it’s especially on the rise in Germany rn with the right extreme party (AFD) growing rapitly in polls and the “conservative” party CDU leaning heavily to the right since they lost power.
Block them. Google NextDNS, takes about 10 seconds to set up with a simple change in your phone’s DNS settings.
I didn’t know this trick, any downside to do this ?
as z4rk said
but I’d also like to add that you can use pi-hole instead on a local old computer
it gives the same functionality, but self-hosted
I use a pi-hole. This works great for all devices in your home network. But as soon as you use mobile data on your phone instead of your home WiFi, you no longer have these benefits.
you can use a local VPN server (wireguard) and always connect to it on your mobile devices
yeah, obviously leaving stuff to other companies like nextdns will always be more convenient, but now you have to trust them
Downside is you aren’t supporting the Dev. Can buy it if you want.
I love the phrase “boomer-ass clickbait”. Gonna have to work that into rotation somehow.
Can you give a little bit of information about this? Does it remove all ads on Android apps? Is there a free version?
I’m not a heavy lemmy user yet (been busy playing Baldur’s Gate 3, woo!) but I’ve had Sync for Lemmy since the day it released, it’s up to date, and I have not seen a single ad yet. I’m using a Oneplus Nord N20, and I don’t have any adblockers installed, except the add-on in my Firefox app. Is it just me?
I believe Ads are only showing in certain views. The more compact views like List which I use, does not have any ad support lol. When I swapped to the larger cards view I immediately saw ads there.
That would explain it. I’ve been trying to figure out why I never saw an ad
I’ve been binging on Balders Gate, I’m at like 11 hours now lol. Btw try to get the animal speak skill as soon as you can, you’ll miss a ton of content otherwise.
Nice!!! :) I got it! I’m playing a barbarian tiefling, and had to make friends with Scratch! Such a good boy!
I still haven’t seen any ads when using sync
