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> (often) ads This one doesn't have much to do with online vs. offline except that you have to be online to see the "latest and greatest" ads. Stale ads can pe

by JadeNB 4y ago

> (often) ads This one doesn't have much to do with online vs. offline except that you have to be online to see the "latest and greatest" ads. Stale ads can perfectly well be shown offline.

coldtea 4y ago
Traditionally they weren't on offline software though. It's an online-era thing, and it thrives on online-ness, both for getting the "new" ads and for sending impressions and telemetry back. Even on modern offline-software-with-ads it's usually a glorified web view.
- hgsgm 4y ago
  Most of my paid online software from non-monopolist providers doesn't have ads.
  - coldtea 4y ago
    Most of it still sells your data to advertisers... even when they promise they don't.
  - int_19h 4y ago
    Unfortunately, said monopolist providers work hard to make alternatives like this less viable.
alpaca128 4y ago
> Stale ads can perfectly well be shown offline. They can, but an Android app I use regularly simply won't show any ads if it cannot access the internet - I get its premium version for free just by pressing a button. Meanwhile I've seen the user-hostile version of that on an iPad years ago, where an app simply locked itself until it was able to download ads.