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Yeah, but no app developer is explicitly saying that. > If a farmer's market set up shop in your town, and little kids stole the merchandise all the time I've
by lowboy 14y ago
Yeah, but no app developer is explicitly saying that.
> If a farmer's market set up shop in your town, and little kids stole the merchandise all the time
I've found that comparisons between physical theft and digital "theft" are always going to be flawed due to fundamental differences between the two domains.
- VikingCoder 14y agoWhat do you mean they're not explicitly saying that? They develop an app - often for free, and as-designed it shows ads. How is this at all ambiguous?
- lowboy 14y agoThen they release it to users who have control over their devices and can modify how their device displays the app. Users are under no obligation to ensure that the app runs as-designed, and if it's not explicitly disallowed they should be free to modify how the app runs. They could modify it to show another language, or put tape over part of the screen to hide some content, or they could download a tool that modifies their hosts file to alter how the app runs. Point being, you can't count on ads being shown to all of your users as you can't guarantee control over their devices. If you don't like that, then don't make apps that rely on ad revenue.