First post on the glorious Fediverse. I joined the moment the protest start, and I have to say, I have yet to see a single advertisement, targetted or otherwise, sans a few honest (fedditors? Don’t hang me) offering commission work. I was born just in time to see the death of IRC and the birth of targetted advertising and social media headed by corporate interest. Mark my words, Lemmy, I ain’t going back. I really hope this is the start of a shift to a renewed, decentralized internet.
PS. Who do I donate to? Is there a patreon for Lemmy or general instances?
Wait, you were using that other site without blocking ads? How and also why?
I was referring to mobile apps, which are notoriously difficult to filter ads from.
I mean, a big part of why reddit wants to get rid of third party apps is that they weren’t serving its ads.
But that was not the app’s fault. Reddit’s own API would not send ads to the apps.
Yes, but that’s kind of beside the point here. My question was why a user of Reddit would choose to use the ad riddled official app instead of an ad free third party one
(on android, idk if there is a ios version) you can block ads system wide with blokada 5 (there is also 6 in the playstore but I believe that isn’t free)
ReVanced will repack the Reddit app to remove ads. I tried doing all the patches but it wouldn’t work. That being said, I much prefer Lemmy.