advertising on iPod touch

DampCat

DampCat

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Hey guys

I'm using my ipod touch a bit tonight and have noticed a whole load of in-app advertising. They're banner adds in some of the apps, probably free ones. I haven't plugged my ipod in for months so it can't have been an update. How has this started? Anyone else getting it? Cause honestly, it's completely unacceptable. I paid full price for this kit and I don't want see their adverts. New all time low?

Is there a solution? Can it be stopped?
 
It's the same style banner add in each app, they're not adverts that came with the apps. They're over laid on top of the GUI.
 
DampCat said:
It's the same style banner add in each app, they're not adverts that came with the apps. They're over laid on top of the GUI.
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Yes they are, they're just all served the same way. A lot of apps use the same delivery mechanism so the adverts look the same.
 
But they've only just started appearing? It says they're delivered by Admob or something? They've never been there before tonight.
 
Indeed.

I see now that the ads are introduced by the app developer rather than as a feature on the iPod. Sorry, i see that Feek said that last night. So it was probably an update to the individual apps that triggered this off.

I'll just be removing everything with an Ad in it. Nothing irks me more, i'm afraid.
 
Admob also put adverts into some free Android apps. As others have said, I guess stuff's gotta be paid for somehow.
 
Well some of those apps i've had for months with no ads, and suddenly they've appeared (presumably after an update)... so it just smacks of "oh look i can make some free money off all those people who i provided a nice free piece of software for". I guess that's fair, but to do it in an update months and months later just seems a bit cheeky.

Luckily there are still people out there who make free apps because they like to contribute to software progression, not just cause they want to make a quick buck :) (and yes, i buy plenty of paid for apps!).
 
It's because the free applications have had to pay for their development.

In the past this could have been done invisibly through the harvesting of your mobile phone number. However Apple now view this practice as bad after serious numbers of unhappy customers.
 
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