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> You can find tons of purely local apps tha[t] monetize themselves with a[d]s. How do they do that without hitting the internet?
by thaumasiotes 1y ago
> You can find tons of purely local apps tha[t] monetize themselves with a[d]s.
How do they do that without hitting the internet?
- kid64 1y agoIt's "local first", not "local only".
- thaumasiotes 1y agoSorry, a "purely local app" isn't "local only"?
- satvikpendem 1y agoYou can hardcode ads into each build that don't need Internet access.
- kid64 1y agoWell if you're gonna get all accurate on me...
- senko 1y agoNot OP, but no. IMHO, a fully local app is an app that can run locally with all the functionality, not that it's isolated from everything else. Browser, email client (running locally on your device such as Mail.app, mutt, Outlook,...), Zed (text editor, runs locally but can check for updates... as can many other modern apps)...
- charcircuit 1y agoPoint 3 from the article is >3. The network is optional Ad SDKs usually allow caching ads for a period of time so that ads can still be shown while the device is temporarily offline.
- free_bip 1y agoi could be wrong but I think they're referring to the winrar model, where there are occasional "annoyances" that you can either ignore or pay to get rid of.