Just a little bit more privacy invasion. C’mon, juuuust a little… 'till you no longer notice.

        • @kassiopaea@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          21 month ago

          How so? I went from Android to iPhone and one of the biggest reasons I kept it was the lack of consumer-hostile intrusive bullshit that seems to be everywhere on Google and Samsung products.

          • @pyre@lemmy.world
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            11 month ago

            by making the iphone. ads were not the primary source of revenue for applications before that.

            • @kassiopaea@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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              01 month ago

              Again, what are you basing that on? Many websites, games, etc. that had traditionally only been accessible on a desktop/laptop were already primarily using ads for monetization at that point (I should know, I was using a lot of them). Blaming Apple for simply making the first handheld devices capable of running similar software makes absolutely zero sense.

              • @pyre@lemmy.world
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                01 month ago

                adware was definitely not the norm before smartphones. I’m not talking about websites, I’m talking about applications. when were games using ads for monetization?

                • @kassiopaea@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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                  11 month ago

                  “I blame RCA for television ads. If they hadn’t made the first mass-market television set, we wouldn’t have TV ads interrupting my morning cartoons!”

                  that’s how you sound rn

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                  Well, it was the norm for websites, why would anyone expect it to not transfer over to every other conceivable platform like it has today? The fact that Apple made the first device that allowed people to put adware on a device in your pocket is pure happenstance, and I’m not even sure how true that is given the existence of Blackberry and early Windows Mobile devices.

                  That said, have you ever heard of WildTangent? Because they’ve been around for a loooong time, and were really attractive to poor and stupid kids like me that really started using the internet circa 2005 and wanted to play computer games.