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?

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I’ll show you how we got here. Ready for this.

We should make the internet as toxic and hostile to anyone using ads as possible because soon as people make money online through ad revenue it will grow so large we can never stop it again among other problems like looking away content and enshitification. Digitally copy and pirate all things that make money through ads. Make them pay for stealing your time and making everything worse. Every time we see an ad, make 5 posts or comments about how that product or service or thing gave you cancer or stared a fire or is haunted. Chase the bankers out of the temple with a whip.

And then people will say “but what about the content creators they need to get paid”

You can’t have both. You cannot have people earning money online through ads and an internet where ads don’t become the sole driver of all things online.

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By continuing to use the same services that keep pumping ads into your face. How else?

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You mean you don’t want to play a match 3 game that will make you cum in 30 seconds, guaranteed.

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Haven’t seen an ad in ages :)

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It’s 2024. How do you not have ad blockers everywhere?

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It’s 2024 and you still don’t understand how advertising in mobile games works? Wow.

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DNS adblockers are pretty effective in apps from my experience

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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.

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Pihole for the win 🥳🎉

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Amusingly condescending reply for someone who doesn’t know what they’re talking about.

4 month old account with a net negative reputation overall…

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👌 Mr condescending

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