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Re:Gwern's Law: Ads cost you a tenth of your users by throwaway9780 on Thursday March 14, 2019 @10:32PM (#19395931)
Unless the games you play are realtime, you can VPN out. When you have an IP of a country not interesting for ad networks, you'll essentially have ad-free internet. Very few ads in a language you don't understand anyway.
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Re:Gwern's Law: Ads cost you a tenth of your users by Groxx on Thursday March 14, 2019 @11:03PM (#19396080)
I've been running NetGuard with default-block on apps.... and I've been loving it. Most games don't need internet access, and no internet means no ads.

It boggles my mind that internet is not a revokable permission. Anywhere. I'd be happy to give X access to e.g. contacts, as long as it cannot upload that info, but until I ran a local VPN that hasn't been an option at all.

Why are (stock) mobile permissions so user-hostile?

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Re:Gwern's Law: Ads cost you a tenth of your users by Haga on Friday March 15, 2019 @02:00AM (#19396965)
The butcher owns the cattle farm? Android has googly eyes.
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