Ben Haube

I can make different rules based on the device group with PiHole.

They are an embarrassment to Americans.

Yeah, pretty much.

Damn! Is Pennsylvania becoming Florida?

Most of the top Nazi officials escaped to Argentina, and the more talented scientists ended up working for the US government.

Same. I have a PiHole on my home network and it blocks the ads in Sync. I still see the empty box where the ad would be though. If I am out of the house the only way I can get that ad blocking back is by connecting to my home VPN server.

Personally, I think the app is absolutely fine without paying for the subscription. I really don’t see too many ads. I get an average of one ad for every two refreshes of the feed when scrolling through, and none of them have been obtrusive. It’s certainly night and day when compared to the ads in the official Reddit app.

Haha now if only they could do it in Times Square. That place is a giant eyesore.

I used to feel bad about using an ad blocker on the internet, but not anymore. I utilize PiHole and uBO for ad blocking now because the internet has literally become unusable without it. I never minded seeing ads, but they have gotten so brazen about it now with the most obnoxious ads possible. When the ads start negatively affecting the usability of the Internet there’s a serious problem. So they can either use respectful ad placement and get some revenue from me, or they can have them blocked and get zero revenue. It’s their choice.

I don’t live in the EU. I have contacted my local representatives in the US, but we all know they are useless and won’t do a damn thing about it.

I am really hoping some regulatory body strikes this down. Where’s the EU when we need them?

I just downloaded it and I’m loving it so far. Definitely the best Lemmy client for Android.