I use sync too; though I’m running it through proton VPN (largely due to my govs increasingly authoritarian stance on internet freedoms, but that’s neither here nor there), which has built in ad and tracker blocking, so I don’t see any of the ads in sync.
Switch to a better app like voyager. The sync dev isn’t great (I admittedly have an axe to grind) and I thought I saw they were abandoning the project.
But either way, grab an app that isn’t trying to monetize you like they do. And don’t pay for the app, they will eventually rug pull it (they did it to me with the reddit app years ago)
Yeah I’m aware of syncs controversy; the app hasn’t seen any updates in a year or so. But using an adblock to circumvent the ads isn’t supporting the dev, and it works well enough for my needs. I definitely wouldn’t pay for a premium account; feels very anti-fediverse in nature.
I did start to use voyager on my Linux phone, though it doesn’t seem to connect to my home instance. Admittedly that’s via the web app, so perhaps there’s some issues with connectivity there rather than voyager in general; but that experience sort of solidified me on sync on my android. I setup a second account on db0 and it worked with voyager, but I’m generally pretty happy where I am.
Feddit.uk have setup a blorp frontend which I may just convert to a web app for use, but I just haven’t got around to it.
I use sync too; though I’m running it through proton VPN (largely due to my govs increasingly authoritarian stance on internet freedoms, but that’s neither here nor there), which has built in ad and tracker blocking, so I don’t see any of the ads in sync.
This is what it looks like behind an ad blocker:
Switch to a better app like voyager. The sync dev isn’t great (I admittedly have an axe to grind) and I thought I saw they were abandoning the project.
But either way, grab an app that isn’t trying to monetize you like they do. And don’t pay for the app, they will eventually rug pull it (they did it to me with the reddit app years ago)
Yeah I’m aware of syncs controversy; the app hasn’t seen any updates in a year or so. But using an adblock to circumvent the ads isn’t supporting the dev, and it works well enough for my needs. I definitely wouldn’t pay for a premium account; feels very anti-fediverse in nature.
I did start to use voyager on my Linux phone, though it doesn’t seem to connect to my home instance. Admittedly that’s via the web app, so perhaps there’s some issues with connectivity there rather than voyager in general; but that experience sort of solidified me on sync on my android. I setup a second account on db0 and it worked with voyager, but I’m generally pretty happy where I am.
Feddit.uk have setup a blorp frontend which I may just convert to a web app for use, but I just haven’t got around to it.