This is getting ridiculous
I have been using ifunny for years and years now ever since I first discovered it as a kid but the amount of ads are getting really ridiculous and people are angry and you’re going to start ruining your app. It was on thing to have them in between features that’s fine, in the comment section it started to get a bit much, the content section is harder and harder to navigate cause of all the ads buts that’s not why I’m here. I shouldn’t be hearing ads playing over videos, now you could say that’s how it was recorded and weasel your way out of it but the first two times it played it didn’t have it, the third time an audio ad just Kept repeating itself, I went in the comments, still played. Tried watching a video in the comments, still played in the background over the sound of the video I was trying to watch. That is absurd and never should’ve been a concept especially with no way to stop it other than completely closing the app and having to come back to whatever you were watching now gone cause the feed reset itself. You’re going to start losing a lot of followers if you keep putting an inordinate amount of ads in. Soon it won’t be “ifunny” it will be “iadvertise.”
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Response from developer
Hey Johnic_The_Chronic, We apologize for the inconvenience caused by the ads. We understand your frustration and are constantly working on improving the ad experience for our users. We appreciate your feedback and will consider it to make necessary changes in future updates. Cheers, iFunny 🙂Support Team
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Remove ads in comments
Mind-boggling decisions
I’ve been using iFunny for almost a decade and this app has been mismanaged lately. They started by removing things like feature shuffle that people loved for no other reason than to remove things. Then they started implementing ads in comments and turned the frequency up to 10 so you see them almost every other comment. The trackers they used for ads caused overheating and battery drain on any phone no matter how new or powerful it is.
Once people found a way to be able to use their phones by blocking the trackers, the iFunny team decided the best way to proceed was spam the people using the workaround with a screen-blocking message filled with misinformation about how blocking the ads makes your device insecure.
I refuse to give this app more than 1-star until the team in charge realizes that you can’t take a core community and try to turn them into your personal piggy banks and fix all the issues they have with ads.
Once people found a way to be able to use their phones by blocking the trackers, the iFunny team decided the best way to proceed was spam the people using the workaround with a screen-blocking message filled with misinformation about how blocking the ads makes your device insecure.
I refuse to give this app more than 1-star until the team in charge realizes that you can’t take a core community and try to turn them into your personal piggy banks and fix all the issues they have with ads.
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They don’t card about their app, it’s only a money producer
They haven’t had a properly functioning app in many, many months. Their feature and subscription system is broken, it doesn’t refresh at all. If you go to your subs you’ll see the same posts, in the same order over and over. They don’t refresh. This has happened for months now. Rumor is they use this app as a data miner. I believe it. It runs slow, it won’t load pictures, won’t load profiles, but ads will send you straight to the store if you accedently click one! Don’t worry, their money making tools function just fine!
This app is almost exclusively a data mining operation. The app is almost inoperable without a VPN due to the vast amount of data constantly being taken from your phone. If you use a VPN, the app tells you it’s a “security risk” and that the app won’t work with it. This is the exact opposite of the truth. The app only functions with a VPN and they are lying when they say it’s a security threat to use one. It’s a security threat to not use one, and the main threat is iFunny.
This app is almost exclusively a data mining operation. The app is almost inoperable without a VPN due to the vast amount of data constantly being taken from your phone. If you use a VPN, the app tells you it’s a “security risk” and that the app won’t work with it. This is the exact opposite of the truth. The app only functions with a VPN and they are lying when they say it’s a security threat to use one. It’s a security threat to not use one, and the main threat is iFunny.
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Its a whole circus here
You want stuff pulled from other places and put on here? You got it! You want one good meme every 30 featured content? Should be no problem! You wanna see some pollution of people dying and the most controversial things said that makes you consider if that person is serious or not? We have it!
With the power of commies and AD blocker, your phone will not turn into a supercharged icy hot pad that can cook an egg in 5 minutes and becomes the most mediocre thing you got on your phone!
With the average block of over 20k trackers used through the ads on this app, you wield the power of a whack app thats full of tiktok and reddit posts!
Once you are in, there is no escape, run
Only god can save you with all this religious propaganda shoved down your throat being barfed around this app
With the power of commies and AD blocker, your phone will not turn into a supercharged icy hot pad that can cook an egg in 5 minutes and becomes the most mediocre thing you got on your phone!
With the average block of over 20k trackers used through the ads on this app, you wield the power of a whack app thats full of tiktok and reddit posts!
Once you are in, there is no escape, run
Only god can save you with all this religious propaganda shoved down your throat being barfed around this app
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Change does not always mean good
2,100 days, almost six years I have looked at this app almost every day for a little under six years. I wouldn’t still be here if I didn’t like it. I love IFunny. I have seen the bad and the worse parts of this app, and I love it and it’s dysfunctional community. I’ve seen the trends and most of the updates. But an update does not mean an improvement. After 2,100 days I am finally starting to look at this app less and less all because the most recent update. Advertisements in the comments. The “feature” does not seem like that big of a deal at first glance, however the sheer amount of ads makes scrolling through comments a jarring experience. It completely halts the mindless scrolling that this app is essentially based on. It creates this space where now no matter where you go, once a post becomes popular enough, you see advertisements. There is no longer a break between the ads. There is only a constant ever-unyielding advertising experience. Nobody is enjoying the new experience. People are angry, people are leaving. And frankly I don’t want to see the app hurt over this. But with the new update IFunny no longer offers anything that you can’t get on a different meme based app. Now IFunny only offers the same memes that everybody else does, with thrice the ads everybody else does.
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Response from developer
Hi LayeredChip3, We appreciate your loyalty to iFunny and your feedback regarding the recent update. We understand that the increase in advertisements in the comments section has disrupted your scrolling experience. Our team is currently working on optimizing the ad placement to ensure a smoother browsing experience for our users. We apologize for any inconvenience caused and hope you will continue to enjoy the app's content. Please message us at support@ifunny.co, we'll talk memes and laughs and help you get the most from iFunny.
Do not download.
I've been here for about 4-5 years. Do not download this app. The community is toxic, the moderation and features are programmed by an algorithm that doesn't work, it is absolutely bloated with "ads" which are actually trackers that will take a huge toll on the performance of your phone. That last one isn't so bad because you can use Lockdown and Blockada which gets rid of the ads, but in the most recent beta release of iFunny it scans through your apps and won't let you use iFunny if you have Lockdown installed because it's "dangerous" and going to "steal your information". Lockdown is a free, open-source software that does nothing but prevent apps like iFunny from selling your information and using your device to mine Bitcoin. If iFunny does not remove that feature from the next update and STOP SCANNING THROUGH YOUR APPS, I'm finally going to escape.
Do NOT install this malware, it is not worth it just to look at bad unfunny memes and to interact with a horrible community and a barely functioning app to begin with.
Do NOT install this malware, it is not worth it just to look at bad unfunny memes and to interact with a horrible community and a barely functioning app to begin with.
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Advertisement
I don’t remember seeing any ads when I got this app years ago. Now every few memes an ad is placed in between and every 5th comment in the comment section is an ad. Too much.
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A lot of the featured “memes” on this app are just screenshots of Twitter posts. If I wanted to look at tweets I would download Twitter instead. The collective section is a breeding ground for racism and anti LGBT posts, which itself isn’t necessarily a huge problem if that’s what you’re going to base your app off, but their community guidelines policy is very inconsistent. If you’re going to enforce rules then enforce them to all users, at all times. And the users are some of the worst society has to offer. I mean I suppose that’s who the app developers feed off of. On top of all this I want to delete my account but literally don’t have the option in the setting to do so. Im supposed to email the support team just to get permission to delete MY account? This is a very scummy tactic to keep users hooked. The only reason I’m not giving this app one star is because if you delve deep enough through all of the garbage this app spews at you every two hours, you may find a few gem worthy memes here and there.
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Theory
I’m 90% sure iFunny is a Russian Psyop designed to spread misinformation and right-wing radicalizing propaganda masquerading as memes. I can only assume the goal is to destabilize the USA by breeding reactionaries from it’s large population of disillusioned young white men. I swear on Occam’s razor this the only rational explanation for the sheer volume of concentrated vitriol the gets pumped up from the depths.
Do not under any circumstance search “Gorge Floyd” in the explore tab.
Do not under any circumstance search “Gorge Floyd” in the explore tab.
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