http://phandroid.com/2013/03/13/google-play-store-ad-blocker/
Moral of the story, don't mess with Google's bottom line.
Moral of the story, don't mess with Google's bottom line.
-
Join the MyBroadband community
South Africa’s biggest forum. Discuss, discover, and connect with thousands of members.
-
Question of the Day: Did you buy your last car with cash or on a finance plan?
Google bans Adblocker apps from Play Store
- Thread starter icyrus
- Start date
HapticSimian
Honorary Master
Meh. The folks tech savvy enough to root their phones - a requirement for many (all?) of these apps - will be tech savvy enough to find them elsewhere. Google's approach isn't surprising, but it won't affect me.
OMB
Mountain Man
Will be interesting to see the reaction to that.
I see adblock is removed from the Play store, but not the Chrome store. Perhaps this is hurting their developers ability to produce free apps in the hope of getting advertising revenue? Perhaps the developers are complaining? Cause they dont mind adblock on PC`s.
K
kingrob
Guest
LOL....can't say I didn't see that coming. 
mika1000
Expert Member
its about the $$$...
biometrics
Honorary Master
- Joined
- Aug 7, 2003
- Messages
- 71,856
- Reaction score
- 2,239
Where do you see ads except in free apps? On mobile sites everything is stripped to the minimum.
ChocolateBadger
Expert Member
The beauty of Android is that you don't need the market to install apps.
reactor_sa
Executive Member
Yep, just get the apk, install. Google are only tricking the amateurs.
There's some apps that places ads in your notification bar and alerts you every now and again. And, of course, only the "free" version is available in the market at all. Those needs to die in fire. Ads on the app itself is fine.
AlphaJohn
Honorary Master
I guess now is the time to back up the one on my phone and tablet.
XDA getting new threads with download links.
XDA getting new threads with download links.
bdt
Executive Member
Between The Apple Autocracy and the Android Adventure, I come down on the adventure side every time a coconut. But, as relates to the specific topic, they can banish these from the ...THEIR Storebut they can't stop me from adventuring forth. To, say, APKTOP on which I find my much beloved AdFree, right there for easy retrieval. APK fetched and nestled in the relevant dropbox folder for future installs.
K
kingrob
Guest
Well, someone must pay for your free Gmail account (which don't have ads anymore, btw), Google Maps, Google Navigation, Google Goggles, Google, Currents, YouTube, etc.
All the goodies you get for free every day....you do know that someone must pick up the bill for all the servers, bandwidth, hosting, etc. Yes?
*If you don't ask Oom rpm why there are ads on MyBB.
All the goodies you get for free every day....you do know that someone must pick up the bill for all the servers, bandwidth, hosting, etc. Yes?
*If you don't ask Oom rpm why there are ads on MyBB.
F
Fudzy
Guest
Well, someone must pay for your free Gmail account (which don't have ads anymore, btw), Google Maps, Google Navigation, Google Goggles, Google, Currents, YouTube, etc.
All the goodies you get for free every day....you do know that someone must pick up the bill for all the servers, bandwidth, hosting, etc. Yes?
*If you don't ask Oom rpm why there are ads on MyBB.
I think they're being greedy if you consider the amount of data mining they do.
K
kingrob
Guest
YouTube consumes 90% of the internet's total bandwidth....can you imagine what it must cost Google to keep it running?
*Citation needed