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

  • pyre@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    you know the iphone basically started this whole shit, right?

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          4 days 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.

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            4 days ago

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

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              3 days 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.

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                3 days 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?

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                  3 days 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