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I'm starting to get to the point where I wish people weren't allowed to call advertising supported products "free." I don't know what other term would be better, but I feel like users are paying some non-monetary cost.
Apple changed apps with In App Purchases from being able to say "Free" to "Get." Maybe they'll do the same with ad supported apps as well.
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This hack works. I wish there was way to disable internet for some apps. I am sure that's possible on android.
Not without rooting it isn't. I don't think even Android 7.0 has an option to disable internet access on per-app basis - you can disable most permissions, but accessing the internet does not require a special permission(there used to be an INTERNET permission but it has been removed by Google)
Can't say I'm too surprised by this development. I am surprised they were magnanimous enough to give it in the first place.
The Sonic game uses the most vile type of in-app ad. The ad requires you to play Game of War for some indeterminate amount of time. You are made to play it after every stage. I hope Sega changes this, it basically makes their game unplayable.
I'm starting to get to the point where I wish people weren't allowed to call advertising supported products "free." I don't know what other term would be better, but I feel like users are paying some non-monetary cost.
Having a 4 year old son I am the first person to put my hand up and say I absolutely HATE ads and general in-app purchases for games that he likes to play on my iPhone. In some cases the way these are implemented it is almost akin to being in a casino which is not a skill I really want my son picking up (watch this ad to see what prize you can WIN etc). I welcome Sega's announcement and will be delighted to hand over…
Bonus, this can also be used to remove YouTube and other kinds of ads as well as all the phone-home "analytics" if that's your thing.
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http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/doc.html + ToDo's via Google
https://github.com/apankrat/dnswhisperer or more generally https://github.com/search?utf8=&q=ad+blocking+dns
There are also 3rd party services that provide this function. They have obvious privacy issues, but for a kid's iPad it might be an option.
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I'm starting to get to the point where I wish people weren't allowed to call advertising supported products "free." I don't know what other term would be better, but I feel like users are paying some non-monetary cost.
Since it's a skinner box, why not call it skinnerware?
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It seems that most people would like it to be free as in charity, which would never happen.
I agree, they need to make money somehow and I actually don't have any issue with the way Sega is doing it (ads if you don't want to pay money, or 2€ if you don't want to pay with ads). What I object to is mainly assimilating not paying money and being free : it's not free if there are ads, you're paying with time, mind share (because there would not be that much money in ads if it was not at least a little bit effec…
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They should be handled by a visibly and audibly slow emulator? No thanks.
Well like I said, I haven't played them. Is the shipped emulator not good?
Sounds like no:
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-06-21-sega-releases-c...
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This hack works. I wish there was way to disable internet for some apps. I am sure that's possible on android.
Not without rooting it isn't. I don't think even Android 7.0 has an option to disable internet access on per-app basis - you can disable most permissions, but accessing the internet does not require a special permission(there used to be an INTERNET permission but it has been removed by Google)
It's open source.
This is incredible. Please let me pay to remove ads though.