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  • reric88🧩@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, my wife uses the official app and she complains about the ads. Constantly, certain subreddit posts show up in her feed as an ad.

    I tried the official app and didn’t like it. It was too bloaty, comment chains felt annoying, navigation was annoying, lack of features was annoying.

    I initially used Reddit Is Fun, then moved to Sync for some reason. Then moved to Boost after the Sync dev went MIA last year.

    Each one of those was leagues above the official app.

    • ඞmir@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      If you’re on Android and tech-handy you can remove the ads from the official app with Revanced Patcher.

    • steakfries@lemmy.one
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      1 year ago

      Thats funny my wife had the official app for a while and deleted it when I showed her Sync, I didn’t even realize she wasn’t using Sync to browse reddit i just assumed she did and never asked. I used Sync for years and years. Alien Blue I think before that. I assumed reddits app probably looked something like they’re new browser site and I hated that thing. I only ever used old.reddit with RES. Now I’ll never go back there again if I don’t have a good reason too.