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submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I cannot understand how some people are living with this. It is unbearable

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[-] [email protected] 168 points 10 months ago

My wife turns off the WiFi on her phone to avoid the pihole. She does this so she can watch the ads in her games to get an extra life or whatever. You'll never win on that front and I won't either.

[-] [email protected] 59 points 10 months ago

I get so pissed off when I try to play sudoku on the bus and it forces me to watch 30 seconds of ads between each game. And then during the game I have to ignore the flashing banner ad at the bottom of the screen.

[-] [email protected] 52 points 10 months ago

Just pay for a good offline sudoku app. It probably costs less than a cup of coffee. Then we'll all be happier.

[-] [email protected] 49 points 10 months ago

or get an open source, free and privacy friendly one from f-droid in case you haven't tied your hands with an iphone

[-] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Simple games don't need internet access. Can't you block network connection for that app?

A better option even is getting something like what [email protected] suggested, or this other one https://f-droid.org/packages/org.moire.opensudoku/ or this other one https://f-droid.org/packages/org.secuso.privacyfriendlysudoku/

[-] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

Then pay 99 fucking cents for the app.

If the ads annoy you enought to post online, but the app is good enough that you keep playing anyway, then pay the developer for their work.

I swear to God some people around here have heard the term FOSS and thought "I don't have to pay for software, hur dur it's free and writes itself!"

[-] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago
[-] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

The thing is with a small app ads pay f all compared to the ongoing development costs. $100usd a year for Apple developer license, recent Mac and time spent developing it.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Lol at all of these comments coming up with ways to not pay someone $1 for a sudoku app.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

There's TrackerControl.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I also really don't like ads, but I think what's lately been bothering me more is every short form video that exists has subtitles added to the middle of the video. I can't even look at the videos because I hate getting distracted by the unnecessary text in my face. Like just let me watch your video, I don't need you to spoon feed me the words too.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago

It's a decent value to play the ad while you actually pay attention to the show you're "watching" for 30 seconds.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

You ever consider divorce? /S

[-] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

Wow. I never would have guessed that people would be upset that they couldn't watch ads.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

People defend what's familiar, even if it's shit

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Oh my god, this statement hits too hard, especially relating to my wife and things like this. She's very resistant to change.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Same. My wife gets mad that her ad emails won't load on her phone. I'm like, hun, just delete them, we don't have money anyway.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago
this post was submitted on 02 Nov 2023
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