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I just get Temu ads really. They are few and far enough between that I dont mind them.
I'm grateful this is a step up from the ads I often get on Snapchat which are usually gambling sites or alcohol brands.
Would be curious how difficult it was for ads to be incorporated into a lemmy client though. Also how do they decide what ads to play.
I'm getting Walmart ads (normal for me) and a lot of ads for intermittent fasting (odd). I'm in the US.
An ad for not consuming? How strange.
You can setup the type of ads you want or do not want on your Google account. Which will impact sync ads since it uses Google Ads
What fraustrates me more than ads are the data they are collecting and the amount of it. I can't even turn it off in privacy settings. Like hungry much?
Super weird, still haven't seen an ad in Sync and don't use any sort of ad blockers or anything. Is it regional maybe?
I went through each item on the cookie banner and declined everything (the banner isn't compliant). Since don't that I just see a grey square as a placeholder for where the ads should be.
I dont think its Sync problem. You probably visited similar websites few times and now the ad service is serving you these kind of ads.
No, I get that shit from Google ads from time to time too, Google just doesn't moderate advertisers at all! :/
In really don't get it, why use it? Good UI? Really, that's it?
To be fair there is not much else in a lemmy app so... yes?
Much smoother experience for me coming from Jerboa. While I appreciate that Jerboa is an open source app. Until it gets significant improvement, I will use Sync. Even with ads and closed source code base, I am happy to make that trade off for now.
Yes. It's by far the best Lemmy app there is, UI/UX-wise
Trying it out right now and it's much more stable, smooth and snappy than any other client I've tried.
Ok so why not just donate to the Foss apps instead? The huge amounts that went to sync would have made any Foss app at least just as good.
You do you, I just don't get it.
Maybe? But I know what I'm getting with Sync. Donations to FOSS don't guarantee anything.
And really, once we start talking about donating to free software with the expectation of specific returns, we're basically talking about paying for software. If a specific set of FOSS is only good when people pay for it, there's a problem with the incentivization to work on that set of software.