How do I permanently delete my account?

Re:How do I permanently delete my account? by PhasmaFelis on Friday November 24, 2017 @12:28AM (#15769595)

Don't underestimate how bad bad ads can be. I turned off targeted advertising on my Android phone for a while. The result was that around 50% of ad banners I saw were ultra-spammy strobing things--presumably the only ones that will pay for untargeted ads--making apps with built-in ad banners essentially unusable. I wound up changing back. That may have been the intention.

(An Android ad blocker would probably work best, but getting one running on my ancient phone was more hassle than I wanted.)

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Re:How do I permanently delete my account? by e12e on Friday November 24, 2017 @01:23AM (#15769751)

Curious - what apps do you use that has apps, but doesn't have a paid option (that you are willing to pay for)?

I rarely see ads on my android (I do use ad blocker for Web browsing).

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Re:How do I permanently delete my account? by PhasmaFelis on Friday November 24, 2017 @06:27AM (#15770544)

Small-time games, mostly.

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Re:How do I permanently delete my account? by dredmorbius on Friday November 24, 2017 @01:33AM (#15769777)

Recognise that the ad platform itself has an incentive to pump absolute bilge at you.

I have an incentive to block that as hard as humanly, or computationally, possible.

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Re:How do I permanently delete my account? by Buge on Friday November 24, 2017 @08:01PM (#15773855)

They have an incentive to give you ads you will click on. If you're not going to click on it, then there's a disincentive to show it to you.

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Re:How do I permanently delete my account? by dredmorbius on Saturday November 25, 2017 @03:53AM (#15775100)

There are two possible transactions: selling you ads, or selling you to a better class of advertisers.

I see parallels to the 3rd class rail (or coach-class air) problem. If you improve the conditions of the lowest service class, nobody upgrades to higher levels of service. So the lowest class is intentionally bad.

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