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Can ads not be used responsibly? Must apps with embedded ads be referred to as "infested"?

• stcredzero 14y ago
  Economic forces always push ad use towards "annoying."
  • tadfisher 14y ago
    Do they, really? Would that not result in less revenue as people move to your less-annoying competition?
    • JoshTriplett 14y ago
      The less-annoying competition pays less, and end users don't have a choice of ad "vendors"; only app authors have that choice. App authors will choose whatever maximizes revenue; if more annoying ads drive off a few users but bring it more revenue from the remainder, the app will use more annoying ads.
    • pixl97 14y ago
      If it did everyone would use chrome/firefox with adblock. A huge portion of the population seems to put up with all the ads thrown at them.
      • stcredzero 14y ago
        I didn't say it would push things to infinitely annoying. But the needle gets stuck leaning that way.
• Tmmrn 14y ago
  As long as there are no true mobile flatrates at a reasonable price (1 Gigabyte with reasonable bandwidth a month? Today I downloaded an update for an android game that was > 1.5 Gigabyte) and as long as mobile networks are overburdened all the time, any ad on a mobile device that is not just text is irresponsible.
• JoshTriplett 14y ago
  I have yet to see an app with ads that didn't also demand a pile of permissions it shouldn't otherwise have (location, phone information, network activity for an otherwise offline app, notifications, etc) just to make the ads more valuable.