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…

  • kratoz29@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I see, well, sadly it wasn’t working for me, it didn’t block ads (I’m using A13) and at the end of the day it didn’t block the Sync squares which was what I was looking for, hopefully this apps gets another revision or update to make it working again as intended in newest Android release, because the concept is more cool than just blocking ads DNS/host file based for sure!

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      1 year ago

      Strange, it did block the ads here (Lineage 20/Android 13), but indeed didn’t remove the squares around the ads.