Using Boost for Lemmy, I got an obvious political ad from the right asking to sign a petition to scrap the gun “ban” in Canada (it’s a registry not a ban).

Now I understand this is an ad but I don’t appreciate having propaganda from the right injected into my browsing on lemmy. Have better ads, or let us report them.

    • rdyoung@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5412·
      10 months ago

      OP is using an app to browse the fediverse. Apps are not free to develop and the devs need to eat. I use sync and I’m paying for ultra so I can both support the dev and not have to see ads even though I do block ads system wide

      • Bondrewd@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1761·
        10 months ago

        So if it is my livelihood, I should be able to manipulate people?

        I was feeling inhibited to do so but it makes more sense coming from that perspective.

        • boyi@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
          292·
          10 months ago

          So if it is my livelihood, I should be able to manipulate people?

          Where above has this been mentioned?

            • boyi@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
              131·
              10 months ago

              Ok. If that’s so, from the same sentence I can conclude that OP stated that working is a form of manipulation and nobody should work, ever. But, NO. No need to put words into one’s mouth unless it’s specifically written as such.

              • Bondrewd@lemmy.worldEnglish
                419·
                10 months ago

                What? I have been talking about ads all along. If you reacted to me, you reacted to me asking about ads.

    • pedz@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      75·
      10 months ago

      I tolerated them when using Boost but it may soon be a thing of the past.

      • Patch@feddit.ukEnglish
        122·
        10 months ago

        You can pay for ad-free Boost. It is not a lot of money. Boost is my favourite app, and in my mind it was well worth it.

        • Bizzle@lemmy.worldEnglish
          61·
          10 months ago

          I switched to Voyager and it’s amazing. Plus there are no ads which is sweet.

          • naughtEnglish
            62·
            10 months ago

            And it’s ✨ open source ✨

            • Fushuan [he/him]@lemm.eeEnglish
              2·
              10 months ago

              I did change it to android mode while testing. Some fonts and icon sizes change, but all the information distribution and overall feel is the same. Things like the header or the footer not dissapearing while scrolling, a lot of information is visible all the time when usually I need it very little and being in a three dot menu would be preferable. It’s not a bad design per se, just different from what I’m used to and way too efficient? Idk how to call that, with the screen space.

                • Fushuan [he/him]@lemm.eeEnglish
                  1·
                  10 months ago

                  There’s no need since I use Android and I can use Boost. Take into account that all this comment chain comes from the fact that I was trying to refute that the apple store is the “popular store” since for the apps that I care, is the one that has less availability.