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?

plz1, 1 year ago (edited 10 months ago)

• Voyager for Lemmy
• NextDNS to kill basically all 3rd party ad networks and tracking

THE_ANON, 1 year ago

Jerboa

KarnaSubarna, 1 year ago (edited 10 months ago)

Lemmy website does provide official PWA app.

On iOS: Safari > Lemmy website > Hit share button > Add to home screen. On android, I assume steps will be similar.

I wholeheartedly recommend PWA app as such is published by the publisher of website itself, and I don’t need to download it either from official or 3rd party store.

In case you don’t know, PWA is basically a web app, running using your browser engine, which has almost same look-n-feel of native app.

Wiki: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_web_app

pineapplelover, 1 year ago

The dev has to do what they have to do to feed themselves. If you really like the app, deal with the ads or pay for the app. I personally can’t deal with ads so I’m on Eternity for Lemmy (through the fdroid store)

MrJameGumb, 1 year ago

I have Boost, but I haven’t seen any ads like that before. The main one I use is Jerboa though.

Neato, 1 year ago

Wait, Boost has ads? I’ve literally never seen an ad.

ouRKaoS, 1 year ago

I paid $3.49 to support the developers and the ads go away as a bonus.

01189998819991197253, 1 year ago

I use the webpage as a webapp. It’s adless.

lemann, 1 year ago

I’m not so sure about clients that are specifically focused on security and privacy, however my general FOSS mobile app suggestions would be Voyager for a polished UX, or Eternity for a more native Android experience.

Both are available on GitHub and F-Droid