I was planning to wait and see what Boost has to offer before deciding if I should pay $20 to remove ads on Sync, but seeing this has convinced me to delete the app for good. Even Reddit isn’t half as bad as Sync when it comes to trackers and shady ads.
Speaking of alarmist. This reminds me of the app called “Zone Alarm” back in the day people would install it as a “firewall” it would then periodically pop up saying it blocked some hacking attempt from a foreign country. Obviously it was all a scam to get the person to buy the pro version, I wonder if that’s kind of what we are going through with some of these apps that “block” tracking attempts
I’ve got nothing to add to the ddg discussion but today is the first time I’ve heard of ZoneAlarm. But I saw a post to a Firefox community about the latest update that included support for it and a couple people mentioned it. Just an amusing coincidence