Comment by CautiousPickle@lemmy.world on Over a quarter of Lemmy users use Sync (based on a poll)

I did a poll and nearly 30% of the people who voted said they used Sync! It’s stayed around that percent the whole time too!

EDIT: Here is the poll I forgot to put this here like five times lol https://strawpoll.com/wby5A21R1yA

After reading this I decided to try it out. Within 5 posts there were ads. No thanks, I’ll stick with Connect.

Edit: I was scrolling everything and replied. I didn’t see this was in the official community. My opinion doesn’t matter in here. I think it’s great that sync is successful and I hope it continues. So yea, keep on keeping on.

I had to trawl through the cookie settings and manually disable every single option. After that I no longer see any ads, just a space where the ads should be. Annoying that I had to do that though, with Reddit Sync I’d paid a one off fee I think and never saw any ads.

I get it though. I think this app is the devs main job, and the user base is significantly smaller than what it was for Reddit so he’s having to put ways in to recover some income.

If you click “reject” it does the same.

I could be mis-remembering but I think I did click that, but the “legitimate interest” options were still ticked?

Nah reject should reject them all 👍

Your opinion matters! Yea the ads suck but if you like how smooth the app is you can get rid of them for a very small fee. But if you are happy with another ap, Connect, more power to ya!

I’ve used sync for almost ten years now… I think it’s worth the fee to remove ads. But sure, there are ads.

It’s strange, both on Sync for Reddit and Sync for Lemmy I’ve always seen the space for ads, but never an actual ad showing in that space. So I just get random black spaces between posts

Sync on reddit also inserts ads in image gallerys i think.

Pretty sure you’re right there, Imgur galleries used to contain ads when viewed in Sync

FWIW you can use list or compact view and it won’t show ads (for now at least). Or just pay the pricey one-time fee to remove ads.

That must be why I’ve never seen ads. I see people bitch about it every time someone mentions Sync, but have literally never seen one. Also the dev is a bad ass. I’ve twice mentioned bugs in release threads and he’s fixed them within a few minutes each time.

$20 really isn’t that bad for ad removal

How much do you pay to remove ads in other apps? Serious question.

There is no other app I use nearly as much or as often as Sync.

Watch out, those are fighting words according to the .world admins!

I really enjoy using connect. RIF vibes within lemmy is what im here for

It’s a single developer that should be paid for his work. You can easily upgrade to the ad free version for a few bucks…

If it was reasonably priced, I’d agree. But €20 is just insane, especially when the clients it competes with already have no ads for free

Yeah, I agree the ad-free price seems a little steep. I would be much more fine paying 5-10 dollars for it.

Does paying for it also remove the trackers, or just the ads?

You’re bothered by the ads? Just pay money for it

lol

Oh no! Someone wants compensation for their labor?? The horror!

Do you own slaves? Because you seem to expect everything to be unpaid labour

Where are all my foss slaves at

I don’t disagree that they should make some money for their efforts, but isn’t every client for lemmy made by a single developer?

I’ve been using systemwide adblock on all my electronics for years now so I forget that in app ads are a thing. But yeah, I see your point. They do offer a one time purchase to remove ads.

Suggestions on adblock for system?

Use a pihole as your DNS server. Applies to all the devices in your network.

Well for my phone I used RethinkDNS before I rooted it again. After rooting I use AdAway.

I just ditched apps that show ads so now I don’t need a system wide adblock on my phone or computer. Ublock Origin in Firefox is enough

Me too, which makes Sync an endless scroll of black squares where ads should be. No thanks, Connect it is.

I use nextdns and I don’t see any blank squares. It just looks like it’s ad free.

You might need a better adblocker. With AdGuard I see an empty box from time to time. It’s in the colour of the background.

that’s what I see without an adblocker

That still looks horrible

You can pay to hide it completely.

I’d pay 5ish bucks like I did for RIF, but for now ill just donate to Liftoff or other open dev without ad injection needs. Id rather buy Sync outright for a few bucks than have yet another ad platformed app running.

I know, i would pay for it (as I did buying the reddit pro and dev versions) but I don’t consider that it has a fair price and I don’t support subscription models either.

I’m happy hopping between connect and eternity. Boost beta is coming next week as well, so I’m not worried at all.

Scrolling through those black spaces is for sure a bad user experience for me, but to each his own

To each their own, I’ve heard connect is a great app!

from someone that used Connect before Sync was available: it works but feels like someone’s hobby. lots of issues and quirks to work around. Sync is absolutely perfect and I wouldn’t be using lemmy without it.

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