• hackris@lemmy.ml
    2·
    10 months ago

    Please. For the love of god, NEVER use a proprietary app to use a piece of FOSS software. I think it’s kind of sad that we have this amazing FOSS social network and people use fucking proprietary software to use it.

  • Rubén@lemmy.world
    2·
    10 months ago

    Boost dev here. There should be an Ad icon on the top right to report the ad. Not sure why it is not showing in this case. I will try to block those ads in the AdMob console. Edit: Done

    • Danny M@lemmy.escapebigtech.info
      0·
      10 months ago

      I’m not a boost user, but why does boost have ads exactly? Why don’t you just ask users to buy a license a la grayjay? Make it 0.99 or less. This has a few advantages:

      • You’ll make more per user than you ever will with ads
      • Users won’t be tracked endlessly
      • It’s good PR for the app

      Also quick question, where is the source code for Boost? I can’t seem to find it

        • Danny M@lemmy.escapebigtech.info
          01·
          10 months ago

          I don’t think Boost is open source

          oh, so that’s why it has ads, they don’t care about their users… alright… I’m not interested in this conversation anymore

          • HaruAjsuru@lemmy.world
            1·
            10 months ago

            This is a bad mindset. Even though FOSS software is a good thing, but there is nothing wrong to make money from their hard work, you cannot and should not force developers to work for free if they don’t want to.

            If you want free software then there are FOSS alternative options out there and nobody forces you to use Boost.

  • imkali@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    1·
    10 months ago

    Jerboa (FOSS. Play Store + F-Droid)

    Voyager (FOSS. Play Store + F-Droid + PWA + iOS App Store)

    Thunder (FOSS. Play Store + IzzyOnDroid + iOS App Store)

    Eternity (FOSS. Play Store + F-Droid)

    edit: formatting

  • taiyang@lemmy.world
    01·
    10 months ago

    Idk, I’ve tried a few but still like Boost; just can’t get into Jerboa or Liftoff, which I tried. It’s mostly just their ad network being meh — though I mostly just get crappy fake gameplay ads, and not enough to bother me. I’m not even sure if they’re targeting me, cause if they are, they’re pretty bad at it.

    Unfortunately I’m sure the app developer doesn’t get much say, virtually all mobile app networks are cancer.

  • No_@lemm.ee
    01·
    10 months ago

    Blokada, never seen a single ad in any of my apps. It’s a battery hog, but it works like a charm since I can’t get access to my router for a pi-hole.