This is how bad the situation is.

Hopefully it is decent, I liked the first one.

I have an S21 with Android. Sync runs in the background but it doesn’t use much power. It looks like about an hour or so of use each day accounts for about 5% battery drain, including background activity, and not including power used by the screen or other services running in the background.

It is not that Sync drains too much battery, what is going is that hinders the phone to go to deep sleep which lends to a bigger battery drain, usually my device drains less than .60%/hr without background activity on my part, with Sync for Lemmy with the optimized profile it is always above 1%

Just a thought though - maybe Sync is making tracking attempts in the background? I recently started using Duck Duck Go’s free VPN which blocks tracking attempts made by apps. Some apps, like Messenger and Robinhood, make thousands of tracking attempts every day, even when the apps are closed and not in use. Google makes tracking attempts through Sync, but I’ve only seen these occur while I use the app. I figured the attempts are made each time an ad loads, but I could be wrong.

This seems like a possibility since I’m always using the AdAway rooted version…

Perhaps Tracker Control might help me to point out something odd there.

I have my suspects that is because it tries to fetch new messages through a non existent push notifications feature/API that was transferred from Sync for Reddit… But hell, that is just a non funded suspicion.

This is an instance issue.

So I assume you experience the same issue?

Well, Spiderman worked for them ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It sucks to know the future am I right?

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I downvote stuff from communities that removed it from my instance and Sync for Lemmy lol, or at least I have never noticed the lack of the feature.

Check out Summit for Lemmy too.

I’d prefer no scratches at all, even if that means sacrificing probability, I mean, we could always use screen protectors for that matter, in fact I did, but it never stopped me from overprotecting my clamshell handhelds.

I’d be worried about the unit being scratched ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

LMAO, imagine paying someone for content and then having a Reddit bot (or human) to copy it here for Lemmy.

Is this the new NFT lol?

Oh, I saw a lot of those lmao.

Same but with Sync for Reddit instead, now I use Sync for Lemmy.

It will open Firefox or whatever your default browser is if you delete chrome or freeze it.

It won’t open the usual webpage though, it will open and create a new tab in the browser, at least that is the behavior that I face with Firefox Beta.

Yeah, I have two solutions for you:

1. Get rid of the Google feed which is crap, and a total BS that it doesn’t support your default browser unless disabling or getting rid of Chrome, you can use an app like Discovery Killer to get rid of it and replace it for another app, as I’m currently using Kvaesitso I have no need for doing that (Discovery Killer currently frozen), I can’t recall if the app needs root though (root FTW anyway).

2. Continue to use it if you enjoy trash news sites with clic baits and such, you can block ads at a DNS level, through android settings or if you have a PiHole at the house, personally I use AdAway rooted version (root FTW x2) and my PiHole at house and with a VPN outside, I’m pretty sure AdAway tooks first, but meh, let’s have some redundancy 😂

I’m pretty sure that could have been mentioned in this thread but I just wanted to explain my setup.

It is your fault for not using an adblocker /s

Excellent! Hopefully it doesn’t break 3rd party apps 🙃

Good thing I have plenty huh?

It is hard to have access to them in Latin Spanish :(

Well, not that hard if you download, but streaming in good quality it is.