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.
This is the problem with ads. That’s where this is coming from. Reddit serves it’s ads differently, so you don’t see the same glut of attempts.
Anything using admob throws up a shit ton of stuff like this.
Now, whether you choose to pay to remove them, or abandon the app is up to you (though I guess ad blockers are another option). But it isn’t sync directly doing this, it’s ads and sites you go to within the app.
Ddg really needs to add some granularity to how they label this stuff. It’s misleading
That’s like saying it’s not the bouncer who left the door wide open but the underage kids’ fault for being in a club. Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s fair that the bouncer refuses to do their job until they get paid, but in this case it feels almost like the unpaid bouncer is actively inviting underage teens into the club.
nah its more like saying that bar over there does the same thing, but has painted their windows black so you can’t see at a glance that it too is full of kids.
No, they’re saying Reddit’s bouncer also left the door open, you don’t realize it because the entrance is hidden and you’re the only who doesn’t know where it is, that’s all.
It is though, since the Sync dev is the one that added the ads in.
Look, you can play around with the wording all you want, but there is a difference between an app having trackers and an ad service having trackers. Since blocking the ads blocks the trackers, and paying to stop the ads blocks the trackers, the difference is obvious since that’s the source of them, and the only source of them.
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The dev of sync put ads in his app…….he even specifically says that unless you pay to remove the ads you will be “tracked”.