I seem to have a visceral reaction to advertisements. It’s very physical.

The short answer is that the Google Play version won’t actually block anything because it breaks their terms of service. So that version just tells you how many trackers and what the trackers are. I still use some of those apps and even respect them (e.g. AP News, AccuWeather), but it completely boggles my mind how they’ve loaded so many trackers into their applications… 🫤

Longer answer: To actually block trackers and ads, you need to use a third party source to download the app so that it’s fully functional. By providing the app that way, they don’t have to abide by Google Plays rules.

The link above is for the F-Droid “app store” version, which is one of the more well-known “stores.” I highly recommend F-Droid. They host free and open source (FOSS) applications. For most everything you use, there is a FOSS alternative which will be ad and tracker free.

https://f-droid.org/

Want a simple ad-free calculator, go there. Want to watch YouTube ad free, go there. Want to download an ad free Lemmy client, go there. Etc etc.

Hurrah for high quality FOSS software!

Yep. It’s becoming more and more common for folks to know that they can do it, but it certainly isn’t ubiquitous. It wasn’t that long ago when I caught my partner listening to music on YouTube with all the ads and I blew their mind away by installing NewPipe. They just had no idea.

Yep, that can work per device or per network. I’m a big fan of Tracker Control because it’s going to work on any network. It’s also highly customizable.

Fortunately, you can block all those ads on Android. Check out Tracker Control: https://f-droid.org/packages/net.kollnig.missioncontrol.fdroid

Because I’m not privileged enough to afford it without.

That’s absolutely unbelievable to me. I block ads on everything. I just can’t handle it. For the few ad-based services that I pay for, I mute it for every commercial. Seriously, I just can’t handle it.

But… clearly tons and tons and tons and tons and tons of people do watch them… which makes a massively lucrative business. I’ll just never understand it.

When I need something, I look it up and get it. If i don’t need something, I don’t want to hear about it in any way, shape, or form.

Ugh.

10 billion. 😖

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I’ve no idea what those emojis represent…

That said, if you wish to be understood, then you might consider expressing yourself with language that’s clearly understood.

Emojis in professional emails are very uncommon. Consider explaining how you feel with words instead. If chatting, then consider image emojis or only the most commonly understood simple text emojis. Uncommon or more recently developed emojis are more likely to be misunderstood and/or considered immature.

Thank you. 😄

No need. It’s already proven. And it’s inhabited are tardigrades!

Proof:

I really really really don’t like where this is heading. Hell, I don’t like like where it already is. 😖

Thanks for the parenthetical. I think all clickbait titles should have such qualifiers. It really helps clarify exactly what the article is about.

I’m not much of a collector, so the IRL figures made me giggle (and smile ear-to-ear). To me, it’s quirky silly fun that perhaps others take a little more seriously. So sorry about that. Then I saw the Boimler character posing with Tawny Newsome. I didn’t see her doll available on the link, but from the little image available… Oh my goodness, I absolutely adore her hair. 💜

I was wondering if this would happen. Now I know. 😒

Pretty sure Rubén develops this app on his own, and part time at that. He posts updates here, moderates this community, and bug and feature requests are reported here. This is a direct line. Not to mention that Boost is closed source. Community is great, but I’m afraid your suggestion would mean more work for him. This Lemmy community is a good way to get everything you’re suggested without most of the overhead.

Lovely bird and incredible shot! 💜

With the server migration and the back end update, I really had high hopes. Haha. But alas… The All feed times out when I try to go to the next page with Boost. I went to the web UI and hit next it sure enough times out as well.

The secondary account I created doesn’t have the problem at all.

I appreciate you checking into the logs before. I’m still really curious about the cause, but it seems like I’m the only one struggling with this. I don’t really want to waste more of your time.

I will probably do a little more troubleshooting out of curiosity, but I don’t have high confidence that it’s going to be rectified.

As soon as I tried tesseract while anon, I was overwhelmed by the garbage post. Turns out I blocked it long ago on my account.

I’m all for defed.

Great news. I hope it was relatively non-eventful.