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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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[–] mojo@lemm.ee 49 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Set your DNS to dns.adblock-dns.com on your phone, and get uBlock Origin on your computer. It's been so long since I've seen any ads.

[–] induna_crewneck@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That DNS didn't work for me. dns.adguard.com works and blocks 71% of ads according to this tool

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

It works, maybe you've misconfigured something.

https://adguard-dns.io/en/public-dns.html

[–] Z4rK@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nice tool! Happy with my 93% result!

[–] induna_crewneck@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which DNS server are you using?

[–] Z4rK@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Ah I’m using NextDNS so it’s just because I have some aggressive blocklists active, but it’s very seldom I get any problems.

[–] Coehl@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago

Man I've been sat here wondering what the fuss was with ads. It's not the only client I'm using, but when I do, I see no ads.

And then I saw this and remembered that I did this a couple years ago.