I honestly think mobile ads in free games and other apps are some of the lowest quality piles of garbage I’ve ever had the misfortune to see, and they are constant. How did we get to this point? Where they are so horribly unbearable and yet so commonplace?
The modern day mobile ad slop was the breaking point for me with ads, adblock is required now for viewing any website with ads.
I have a pihole.
Every time I go out onto LTE I experience the shittery that the rest of the world lives with every day. It is brutal. I have no idea how people do it.
It’s funny, even sync for lemmy I never use it outside because it also has huge shitty ads. But on my network all is nice and clean!
You can also host a VPN server with your pihole so you don’t get ads on LTE either.
Yea I’ve considered that but I’m afraid of opening up anything on my local network to the outside. I’m not sure I’m technical enough to risk accidentally opening something that’s a vector for attacks. I’m ok with everything only accessible from 192 I’m not out enough for it to matter too much.
Investigate tailscale, run your phone’s internet thru your pihole when you’re out and about, or set your phone’s dns to dns.adguard-dns.com. No-one should have to live with that crap.
It’s 2024. How do you not have ad blockers everywhere?
It’s 2024 and you still don’t understand how advertising in mobile games works? Wow.
Amusingly condescending reply for someone who doesn’t know what they’re talking about.
4 month old account with a net negative reputation overall…
Every game I’ve used utilizing the play framework detects if the ad was served. They will not grant the reward or complete the action. Unless there is a tool that fakes the response from Google’s ad network the game action will fail. I’m guessing you are just talking about not getting ads, which yes, is easy and trivial.
You mean you don’t want to play a match 3 game that will make you cum in 30 seconds, guaranteed.
Websites too, journalism pages in particular have become just ridiculous.
A nearly full screen ad after every 1-3 (short) paragraphs is just bullshit.
There’s simply no “free” stuff out there, unless it’s specifically released as free/open source.
If you’re on Android, AdAware and Lucky Patcher are quite effective in filtering/killing most ads though.
