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Don't underestimate how bad bad ads can be. I turned off targeted advertising on my Android phone for a while. The result was that around 50% of ad banners I sa
by PhasmaFelis 9y ago
Don't underestimate how bad bad ads can be. I turned off targeted advertising on my Android phone for a while. The result was that around 50% of ad banners I saw were ultra-spammy strobing things--presumably the only ones that will pay for untargeted ads--making apps with built-in ad banners essentially unusable. I wound up changing back. That may have been the intention.
(An Android ad blocker would probably work best, but getting one running on my ancient phone was more hassle than I wanted.)
- e12e 9y agoCurious - what apps do you use that has apps, but doesn't have a paid option (that you are willing to pay for)? I rarely see ads on my android (I do use ad blocker for Web browsing).
- PhasmaFelis 9y agoSmall-time games, mostly.
- dredmorbius 9y agoRecognise that the ad platform itself has an incentive to pump absolute bilge at you. I have an incentive to block that as hard as humanly, or computationally, possible.
- Buge 9y agoThey have an incentive to give you ads you will click on. If you're not going to click on it, then there's a disincentive to show it to you.
- dredmorbius 9y agoThere are two possible transactions: selling you ads, or selling you to a better class of advertisers. I see parallels to the 3rd class rail (or coach-class air) problem. If you improve the conditions of the lowest service class, nobody upgrades to higher levels of service. So the lowest class is intentionally bad.