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I get the reason for there being Ads in the sync app. I don't have the funds to pay for ultra and that's also fine.

But what I find concerning is the type of ads I see. I live in Germany for clarification and most of what I see are websites acting like news sites (right leaning at times). When I accidentally tap on them my browser immediately blocks the website for unsafe practices on their end.

Now I really don't mind the ads in apps if it's the usual app ad, random products or Amazon type of things. But I hate it when every ad is a boomer ass clickbait ad about how solar energy is definitely worse than anything else.

This is my main complaint about sync right now and it might push me to stop using it again as the ads are also very frequent...

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Honestly I rarely see ads on the app. I mostly get temu ads.

Go to most news sites and they're bombarded with shitty ads taking up 80% of the screen space

On sync I may be see 1 small ad per 10-15 posts, tops.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Connect doesn't have ads :3

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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

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