I am a 31-year-old gay man who loves technology, sim racing, and spending time with my husband, cat, and dog. I spent 12 years working as an automotive technician and recently changed careers to IT. Now I am working to finish my Cybersecurity degree.
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.
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 can make different rules based on the device group with PiHole.