Mobile app usage question
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I've been on the internet since roughly 1994, and I'm being absolutely honest when I say that the only times I've ever clicked on an ad is when the browser hadn't yet fully loaded a page, and I clicked on a region to follow a link, but in the time it took for the click to register, an ad finished loading and forced the screen layout to change...so the browser thought I clicked on the ad rather than the link. Back in the context you're talking about...I think you can draw your own conclusions.
I recall a torrent site back in the day doing that on purpose. the page would be loading but a link would be showing to download the torrent but through some kind of magic that link would drop an inch down and be replaced by an ad which was imediately triggered as a click before it even loaded. Smart.. but eventully it was fixed or removed. The advertiser site probably figured out what was going on. I can't imagine the conversion rate being very good on an of these ads that show up within games.
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I generally share the sentiment, but really, I think most games nowadays require a connection at the very least to pass through some validation/authentication phase, if it's a game you've purchased. Case in point: I quit gaming pretty much altogether well over a decade ago, but still make an exception for whenever a new installment of the Grand Theft Auto series comes out. GTA5 (now 6 years old) phones home to validate the game when launching it, and persist your saved game to "the cloud". It plain won't work in a disconnected state. Of course, I have a machine that's dedicated to playing games, so if a game wants to spy on me and my habits, it'll find the machine is used to...play games and not much else. I don't even browse the web on it.
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Michael DeMutis wrote:
You could be on to something Jerry.
Who is Jerry?
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On your smart device, when/if you play games that contain ads, do you click those ads (because you are interested in the product, or are wanting to help the developer), or just endure the interruption and then get on with the game? I find them fingernails-on-the-chalkboard annoying and will do most anything to avoid them, including uninstalling the game. I may be wrong, but I find it difficult to believe that the revenue from them outweighs the complaints about them.
"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
I prefer to pay for a game/app than use one filled with annoying ads X|
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On your smart device, when/if you play games that contain ads, do you click those ads (because you are interested in the product, or are wanting to help the developer), or just endure the interruption and then get on with the game? I find them fingernails-on-the-chalkboard annoying and will do most anything to avoid them, including uninstalling the game. I may be wrong, but I find it difficult to believe that the revenue from them outweighs the complaints about them.
"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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I don't get any ads while playing games on my phone. It's an ancient Nokia, no internet, and only game is Snake. I played it in about 2011 for a few minutes. No "smart"phone, no games, no ads, no problem. :-)
DerekT-P wrote:
It's an ancient Nokia...
More than once I've considered going back to my first, a Nokia 6150.
"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