> but there are good reasons why users prefer it I think it is vastly disingenuous to suggest that the ads and spyware in most free apps are somehow “good for

> but there are good reasons why users prefer it I think it is vastly disingenuous to suggest that the ads and spyware in most free apps are somehow “good for the user”. These are simply economic realities that are forced on app developers, because the market place for paid sustainable apps has been mostly destroyed by free alternatives. These days good apps are almost without exception either a) subsidised by a major corporate (eg. Insta) or b) paid (eg. Procreate). Free apps are mostly exploitative spam, hunting for whales to sustain the developers.