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In today's CP newsletter is a mention of AdMob. That got me to thinking:
I personally hate ads, and do my best to avoid them. If they end up detracting me from the app itself, I remove the app and move on to the next one. No app is so great that I must endure the intrusion and interference that all ads cause just so I can use the app. I never knowingly click on ads. As a developer, I would never consider adding them to my app. So...
Do others feel this way? For the developers that do incorporate ads, are they actually making (enough) money in such a fashion that it overshadows the hassle that users must endure?
What are your thoughts?
- DC
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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If the choice is between making $0 and making $x where x > 0, lots of folks will go with x even if x is a trivial amount of money. They can also hide behind the anonymity of a company name. So they can just get a new name if their first company gets bad press.
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And that's it. I honestly agree with both: I hate ads but if I'd publish a free app I would put them anyway.
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I agree, mobile ads should be banned. The developers who put all that time and effort into creating and supporting those apps should do it all for free because I have an unrealistic perception of the industry. After all, I work for free too...when my boss pointed out that all I was doing was "writing some if statements" I withdrew my annoying invoices and now instead of food I eat my sense of civic duty and rather than petrol I fuel my car with Google Play reviews.
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They could sell the App instead of the ads. I haveca few Apps I would happily pay for but it is not an option.
I can pay to remove the ads but don't know if I have to pay for each existing or replacement device I have.,
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Hey,
Thought it strange you haven't posted about the sandpaper story yet? Or do you not follow cricket any more?
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Check the Soapbox. A Griffin posted and I responded.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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can I interest you in a pouch for your glasses?
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what I don't like is they "target" these ads and still present stupid shite ...
take one look a review of the latest star wars and you're ofen targeted to buy mickey mouse night lights because you looked at a disney product. (don't ever google "last longer" ....)
and if you buy the damn product it doesn't stop asking you to buy another one.
(Even Amazon does that ... "hey did you enjoy that screwdriver you just bought, look what we have for you right now, a screwdriver!!!")
If they made ads less stupid, more relevant and better timed maybe I'd look ... or not ... when I want something I'll ask.
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If you're using Windows, the simplest way to deal with most of that is to add a few entries into your hosts file and redirect the major ad services to 0.0.0.0. Even their tracking scripts don't work after that unless they hard-coded their IP address and who does that anymore? It's that or get a script blocking browser add-on. Problem solved.
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Instead of maintaining your own hosts file yourself, have a look at Pi-Hole.
It's a DNS server you can install on a tiny Linux machine (originally intended for the RasPI, but it'll work in a small Linux VM). It'll block anything it recognizes as an ad server, plus you're free to blacklist/whitelist your own.
The benefit over maintaining your own hosts file is that once you've changed your router settings so it points to it, ads won't even make it to any device on your LAN. Windows, Linux, OS X, Android, iOS, game console, whatever.
Installation is practically a one-liner, so even if you can barely figure out how to install Linux in a VM, you should be able to get it going.
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As user, I can tolerate ads. After all, in some cases, the apps are great stuff I've got for free.
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My mobile phone is 100% ad free - read that as Flip-Phone!
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Depends.
Some ads are worth allowing - CP for example exists only because of ad revenues, so I have the site whitelisted.
But apps with ads is different - it depends to an extent how good the app is and how intrusive the ads.
If you ad small ads that don't distract me from the app, and the app is a good 'un, then I'll pay to remove them - I think of it as a "shareware trial version". If the app is cr@p, or the ads get in the damn way then I'll review the app, say why it's rubbish so others are warned, and uninstall it.
But the ad supported model is a good way to try an app out and see if the coder has any idea what he's doing: far too many are obviously there just for ad revenue and to heck with the actual app!
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I use to consider all advertisements as an aggression, too.
Not to mention that I hate all the marketing language bs.
"I'm neither for nor against, on the contrary." John Middle
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Advertising causes me therapy therapy therapy ....
Joking, I stuff all my apps with tons of advertising. Gonna have to eat you know, cheese costs money.
throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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kmoorevs wrote: It's the first time this year I've had to get dressed up for work. 
You're not getting dressed up.. you're wearing a costume to put others at ease. Amazing how considerate you're being. 
Good luck.
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Act socially unacceptable, bodily noises galore type stuff, and I bet you get to go home early, OR no one will bother you during the entire process.
Why do you have to dress up? Unless you mean you code nude. Passive agressive protest with your clothes.
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Think of it this way: somebody else is paying for this. This means food and (hopefully) booze of good quality, and reasonable quantity.
I financed my learning about the qualities of fine red wine this way.
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kmoorevs wrote: It's the first time this year I've had to get dressed up for work.
How dressed up us "dressed up"?
Most I've toffed up recently was jeans and a short sleeve shirt (one with buttons all the way down!) once last year. I sell the product, not the wrapping. Then again I don't have a boss so no one can tell me otherwise. (Except the missus ... wait till she's not looking and make a run for the door, always trying to [over]dress me up she is )
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OK - lets go at this from two sides.
The Monkey House Strategy
1) Prevention. Have a reputation for throwing feces at person who come by your office and ask you upsetting questions.
2) If at the meeting, bring an umbrella. When asked, explain it's just that sort of behavior you expect from them and you simply thought it to be prudent.
Either way - no more meeting hassles.
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