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BeVonk!

BeVonk!

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A new tendency on Android (and to a lesser extend on iOS, but also becoming noticeable) is for paid apps to keep on advertising despite the "pay to remove ads" arrangement (that was honoured in the past). The banner ads disappear but notifications (of all kinds) are then used to bombard users with offers. Badges appear everywhere or when one advance or go back in an app offers pop up. On Android the huge focus on advertising is driving me to the point where I want to abandon that platform altogether. I feel that when I pay for an app a developer should remove all ads and not just banner ads at the bottom/top of the screen. I want my app completely ad free when I pay for it. I also do not want to be reminded twenty times a day about other products offered by the developer or its buddies. This is especially frustrating when it happens with apps I've used for a long time.

An example of this is the series of Go apps. One tests the various Go apps and then buys them to get rid of the ads ... but the ads don't really go away, they are transformed.

Someone should develop a blacklist app for this where users can report paid for apps doing this.
 
+1 Agreed. At least with iOS 7 you can disable notifications for an app.
 
BeVonk! said:
A new tendency on Android (and to a lesser extend on iOS, but also becoming noticeable) is for paid apps to keep on advertising despite the "pay to remove ads" arrangement (that was honoured in the past). The banner ads disappear but notifications (of all kinds) are then used to bombard users with offers. Badges appear everywhere or when one advance or go back in an app offers pop up. On Android the huge focus on advertising is driving me to the point where I want to abandon that platform altogether. I feel that when I pay for an app a developer should remove all ads and not just banner ads at the bottom/top of the screen. I want my app completely ad free when I pay for it. I also do not want to be reminded twenty times a day about other products offered by the developer or its buddies. This is especially frustrating when it happens with apps I've used for a long time.

An example of this is the series of Go apps. One tests the various Go apps and then buys them to get rid of the ads ... but the ads don't really go away, they are transformed.

Someone should develop a blacklist app for this where users can report paid for apps doing this.
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Hold down on the notification in your notification bar, and select "App Info" - It's likely not the app that you're thinking of that is showing the adverts.

If it is that app, then there's a tickbox to "Disable Notifications", and voila, gone!
 
If your app doesnt require a connection you can just turn off your 3g and the ads dont come through?
 
By notifications I mean more than just the standard notifications. It happens inside the apps themselves. The Go suite of apps on Android and anything done by the developers the of Pimp my Screen on iOS comes to mind. They take your money but then keep on dishing the ads out.
 
With the Go apps they constantly milk you for more money. You start of with one thing then they tell you you need to pay for more ... then you pay for more just to realise it is not the more you had in mind ... there is more to pay for ... and so it goes on and on. And they pester you with the "more" all the time. I just now read a comment in the app store where someone gave a one star rating stating that it is insulting.
 
BeVonk! said:
With the Go apps they constantly milk you for more money. You start of with one thing then they tell you you need to pay for more ... then you pay for more just to realise it is not the more you had in mind ... there is more to pay for ... and so it goes on and on. And they pester you with the "more" all the time. I just now read a comment in the app store where someone gave a one star rating stating that it is insulting.
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but the go launcher is awesome. i put up with the once a month promo because i don't like launcherpro, apex and the others as much as i like go :/
 
I've never seen it with paid apps, only free crapps fortunately. If they did ever appear in a paid one, I'd write a pretty nasty review on the Play Store. The banners and fullscreen ads in Youtube nowadays are pissing me off though. Especially since the ads load instantly and never need to cache, unlike the actual video I'm trying to watch.
 
Park@82 said:
I would hate ads on my paid for apps. Cant say that Ive seen any. /note to self, do not buy Go apps.
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Go is Chinese spyware crap anyways, it installs all kinds of other crap on your phone.
 
Park@82 said:
I would hate ads on my paid for apps. Cant say that Ive seen any. /note to self, do not buy Go apps.
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Go is Chinese spyware crap anyways, it installs all kinds of other crap on your phone.
 
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