Ads on android with sound

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Hi guys, normally I dont use any apps on my phone but today I decide to download a workout trainer for a bike. 5 minutes in using it I have ads with annoying video and sound, is it normal? Did it really when to **** with them ads? How normal people can use it? When did we pass that point that it became a norm. Please dont give me that they support developers and so on. Prostitution support a person doing it and its still illegal. Your thoughts on it?
 
Was the app free or paid? If free tough the devs need to make some money. If paid, refund, find a new app.
My question has more to to with the fact that ads became so bad and yet no one cares. Ads company make money of it so they want to make them as obtrusive as possible. Developers get paid I get that but I still remember first aps with ads on android it was a bit of text and that is it, now is mayhem.
 
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Prostitution isn't illegal and neither are ads in apps. Deal with it.
"In England and Wales, it is an offence to pay for sex with a prostitute who has been "subjected to force" and this is a strict liability offence (clients can be prosecuted even if they did not know the prostitute was forced)."
 
Read that again, think about what it says and then realise that it isn't saying what you think it is...
It mean that after "service" she can sue your ass...

My point was that ads become very obtrusive and with sound no way to skip it's nothing like it was 5 years ago... I get that developers should get paid but it was profitable to make aps 5 years ago and now its not ales you put shi.ty ads in them?
 
5 years ago you had competition from one or two other apps, you needed less income per app because your app could get away with being more basic and less worried about similar apps taking your user base.
That's not true games, movies are still sold at the same price yet cost of producing them sky rocked. You said that the market become more competitive and that's the reason for ads of that sort to "help" developers paid bills but if that business was not profitable no one would make apps. I just dont understand why do we allow companies like that to mess everything up.
 
I used to play Word Feud a lot with the free version. Didn't mind the ads. But then they released an update which have you full screen video add with sound - even when your phone was on silent. Did my nut. Haven't played since. Devs need to be aware of their audience, ads like that will only drive people away.
That's it!!! This is exactly what I had in mind if they put ads like that they will not make any money because I will not use that app. I just dont understand why it all went to shi.t and we allowed it without saying anything.
 
So don't use that app and use one of their competitors, they'll soon get the message when no one is using it.

What you'll find though, is that the next free alternative will eventually do the same thing because they simply can't afford not to in their attempt to stay at the front of the queue.
If the cant afford to develop aps without bad practices I have no sympathy for them.
 
Going with his example, you can buy Word Feud for £1.99 or get a free version with ads, it's a simple choice on how you pay for the hours/days/weeks of work the developer has put in. Is there not a paid version of the app you downloaded? What is the app?
I have not problem with ads my problem is with ads that are design to be sh.it, to be obtrusive . You can still put ads just dont put videos with sounds that cover whole screen event when app is hidden. If you do that is a developer choice and we let them by not doing anything and justified their actions. If I dont use app and developer ads more adverts coz he cant make sell coz no one use it then the business model is broken. I dont care a bout him, if he cant make it profitable without bad ads he can change business for all I care.
 
If people can't make me stuff for free and not worry about getting paid, then screw them - that's about the size of your argument?
No. Lets say there 3 type of ads: 1. text you get 1£ 2. Couple second ad bottom screen you get 2£ and last 3. video cant be skip sound but you get 5£

Logicically you would use last ad to make the most money and justified it that without it you couldn't make that app. In my opinion if you have to used ad number 3 to make profit then dont bothered your business is broken. I have no problem with number 1 and 2 its 3 that I think is not acceptable and yet you guys just roll with it coz those poor developers have no option. They do have options they are just greedy.
 
The "bloody system" is that you can either suffer the ads, pay for the app or find an alternative that uses less intrusive advertising. If you don't like the ads, leave a review or contact the developer. I'm not sure what else you think we should all be doing (partly because your posts are so hard to understand).
English is not my first language and with severe dyslexia I have is a miracle I can communicate. Back to my point I sick of what happen to app store that horrible ads became a norm nd I'm the only one that see that as a problem not a solution.
 
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