The Boost android client for Lemmy is displaying these dark pattern ads pretending to be system notifications. What security/privacy conscious Lemmy clients do you recommend?

epoch , 5 months ago

Use Jerboa.

mariusafa , 5 months ago

Use F-Droid, Google store is a malware vendor at this point.

willybe , 5 months ago

I take it schools aren't teaching tech literacy. We wouldn't want the kids to get in the way of our overlord marketing agencies.

MiddledAgedGuy , 5 months ago

I wonder if they ever really have? When I was in school they taught you how to use a computer, but not what the computer was doing or how it worked.

I'm not too connected to the educational sector anymore but anecdotally it seems like becoming tech literate has a growing stigma (it's always had a stigma). Happily ignoring what it's doing while it's actively abusing you.

hunt4peas , 5 months ago

I am using Voyager & Eternity and both have no ads.

averyfalken , 5 months ago

I use eternity chase its Foss and easily available in the fdroid store

SuperSpaceFan , 5 months ago

And they are free

MBM , 5 months ago

It's wild just how many apps there are for Lemmy, ha

0ops , 5 months ago

Wow, no kidding

risencode , 5 months ago

Thanks for the warning, switching to Jerboa.

rando , 5 months ago

Voyager, eternity, jerboa in that order

cows_are_underrated , 5 months ago

I tried voyager once and it was the worst thing I have ever touched. The UI is absolutely horrible. Way to much stuff and not intuitive(why do I have to click on the three dots to fucking upvote?).

bob_lemon , 5 months ago

1. You can enable voting buttons
2. There's swipe gestures for voting, replying and some others.

turbulentMagma , 5 months ago

Use foss apps

waratchess , 5 months ago

Voyager

It's a FOSS privacy respecting Lemmy client.

It's available on Android and IOS

You can also try it as a PWA: https://vger.app

labbbb , 5 months ago

Another one URL I use: https://wefwef.app/

waratchess , 5 months ago

The OG

eya , 5 months ago

Your lemmy app has ads???

rmayayo , 5 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

dannym , 5 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

haruajsuru , 5 months ago

I don't think Boost is open source, and you can pay a one time fee to permanently remove the ads

dannym , 5 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 , 5 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.

JokeDeity , 5 months ago

I really like Voyager.

hackris , 5 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.

pirrrrrrrr , 5 months ago

Open-source it a better interface then.

Until it's as useful as at least Sync for Lemmy, people will use 3rd party proprietary apps

vox , 5 months ago

i use sync. there's nothing even close to the quality of the client. (The onlt client that implements material you in a fun and usable way, sync is usable one-handed)
I had been using Liftoff for a while (before switching to Sync as soon as it came out), which i quite liked but it feels a lot worse than sync

cypherpunks , 5 months ago

(The onlt client that implements material you in a fun and usable way, sync is usable one-handed)

Touchscreen keyboards and their consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

haui_lemmy , 4 months ago

Indeed.

taiyang , 5 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.

ToxicWaste , 5 months ago

Jerboa doesn't have ads..?

BeigeAgenda , 5 months ago

Not even one ad, it's open source same with Eternity.

I switched from Jerboa to Eternity because of the 0.19 update fuss.

rozlav , 5 months ago

What's this fuss about ? I was a Eternity user before Lemmy (I don't recall the name of this app, when it waS reddit)
edit:typo

SuperSpaceFan , 5 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

For Reddit the original app was Infinity. Eternity is a fork of Infinity.

imkali , 5 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

southernwolf , 5 months ago

10/10 for Voyager, with a shout-out to Eternity too!

Klear , 5 months ago

I need to do another round of trying everything. Currently using Liftoff and happy with it, but I should check out the alternatives anyway.

pacjo , 5 months ago

Eternity is great and there's a work in progress to add multicommunity support.

Also just like Infinity enabling amoled theme makes it look a whole lot more modern.

JustEnoughDucks , 5 months ago

The only thing it is missing for me is community search. It is great! Also the most customizable of the bunch in my opinion

soviettaters , 5 months ago

Jerboa's great

wreckedcarzz , 5 months ago

As a user of RedReader since launch a decade+ ago, I dig Thunder. Simple, no bullshit, logical settings.