I normally use the Aurora frontend, but I used Google’s app to check something. I couldn’t help but notice that when I swiped and then let go, the page would barely move past the point I had let go. It had no momentum whatsoever. As soon as I got past the ads, scrolling was back to normal and the exact same flinging motion would send me down by at least a screen’s worth.
Dont have ads in mine. Are you not blocking ads at the DNS level? I assume anybody thats not must enjoy them.
Also, check your logic. You have a phone branded by an ADVERTISING company, many Androids apps are free (to you) because of ads, while the same apps are paid ones on iOS. How do you think that works?
I have a Pixel, run Graphene, sanbox the play store and block ads at the DNS level, seeing ads is a choice you’re making.
Experience-based vendor lock-in while getting bait’n’switched with increasing amounts of ads is not a consumer choice. To assert otherwise is extremely ignorant of the power dynamics between individual consumers and the duopoly that we have in the phone market.
I do block ads on the DNS level. You’re probably running a modded version of the client without realizing it.
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Dont have ads in mine. Are you not blocking ads at the DNS level? I assume anybody thats not must enjoy them.
Also, check your logic. You have a phone branded by an ADVERTISING company, many Androids apps are free (to you) because of ads, while the same apps are paid ones on iOS. How do you think that works?
I have a Pixel, run Graphene, sanbox the play store and block ads at the DNS level, seeing ads is a choice you’re making.
Experience-based vendor lock-in while getting bait’n’switched with increasing amounts of ads is not a consumer choice. To assert otherwise is extremely ignorant of the power dynamics between individual consumers and the duopoly that we have in the phone market.
I do block ads on the DNS level. You’re probably running a modded version of the client without realizing it.