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Re:Amazon Underground by modeless on Wednesday August 26, 2015 @09:41PM (#10127053)
Oh, I definitely expected ads, I'm not surprised at all, and I don't think Amazon is being excessively sneaky (though it would be nice if this information was more prominent on their developer pages). I'm mostly disappointed in the authors of the multiple news articles I saw about this [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] for parroting Amazon's "Free Apps" PR without doing enough research to find out about the ads Amazon is using to pay for the deal.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/26/amazon-underground-is-an-an...

[2] http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/08/amazons-new-games-and-...

[3] http://www.engadget.com/2015/08/26/amazon-underground-free-a...

[4] http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2490149,00.asp

[5] http://www.theverge.com/2015/8/26/9210071/amazon-underground...

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Re:Amazon Underground by sigmar on Wednesday August 26, 2015 @09:50PM (#10127078)
Wow. Those links are pretty damning.

Ars mentioned there are ads in the Underground app itself, but didn't mention anything about ads being added to apps. Techcrunch only mentions ads in explaining how previous app revenue models used banner ads. The Verge doesn't mention ads at all. Embarrassing.

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