A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.
Some Rules
- Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn’t great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
- Don’t promote proprietary software
- Try to keep things on topic
- If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
- Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
- Be nice :)
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Use Jerboa.
Use F-Droid, Google store is a malware vendor at this point.
I take it schools aren’t teaching tech literacy. We wouldn’t want the kids to get in the way of our overlord marketing agencies.
I wonder if they ever really have? When I was in school they taught you how to use a computer, but not what the computer was doing or how it worked.
I’m not too connected to the educational sector anymore but anecdotally it seems like becoming tech literate has a growing stigma (it’s always had a stigma). Happily ignoring what it’s doing while it’s actively abusing you.
I recommend ignoring update requests when they pop up. It’s not just Boost, I’ve seen so many of those kids of ads now that I just go check for updates through the system.
What about just not using a proprietary client for an open source social media platform? You’ll find amazing FOSS Lemmy clients as well as a whole lot of other FOSS software on F-Droid. It’s the best source for Android apps. Thunder is my personal favorite.
I am using Voyager & Eternity and both have no ads.
And they are free
I use eternity chase its Foss and easily available in the fdroid store
Same with Connect.
It’s wild just how many apps there are for Lemmy, ha
Wow, no kidding
Yeah I love it
I’m reading this on Boost (once off payment) and no ads…
Good god I thought that was my client for a moment. Almost uninstalled before realising it was an image.
Phew
sync does not have ads for me as of now :)
Sync is the only option for me
I’m using Sync but pretty disappointed we still can’t post using it
what
Nvm
You can definitely post on Sync…
Oh look at that. Must’ve been added in an update without me noticing. Woohoo!
Personally I like Connect even though it’s not FOSS because it’s layout is similar to RiF.
I didn’t even realize that it wasn’t, tbh. There’s no ads or purchases or anything
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Ads in the feed now? Yikes, that’s reason enough for me to switch before I’m forced to update it.
Thanks for the warning, switching to Jerboa.
Voyager, eternity, jerboa in that order
I tried voyager once and it was the worst thing I have ever touched. The UI is absolutely horrible. Way to much stuff and not intuitive(why do I have to click on the three dots to fucking upvote?).
Oh I just use swipe actions. Tap on comment and swipe left/right, there are 2 actions on each side depending on how much you swipe.
Also voyager was the only client allowing me to increase the font size (when I started using lemmy on phone)