What about just not using a proprietary client for an open source social media platform? You’ll find amazing FOSS Lemmy clients as well as a whole lot of other FOSS software on F-Droid. It’s the best source for Android apps. Thunder is my personal favorite.
Maybe I’m behind on my terms but does this count as a dark pattern?
It was my understanding that dark patterns are a thing designed to use a service in a way that they wouldn’t normally intend to, like renew a subscription or leave privacy options to the benefit of the company instead of the user.
This just seems like a scam, or at best highly deceptive advertising? Like, for it to be a dark pattern it would have to actually be able to send you to some android update system, but it almost certainly isn’t ever going to do that.
It’s on a Fairphone 3 on Android 13. On Wi-Fi Private DNS works perfectly, but as soon as I switch to 4G the internet connection don’t work anymore. As soon as I reset the private DNS to default it works as intended again. That’s seems to be a carrier issue.
I recall that was a bug for a couple days and only on some sort modes when some instances upgraded to v19 and were shitting errors everywhere. All fixed now
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)
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