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Oh no $20 to remove ads from an app that was made by one guy as his full time job. I’m proud to support anyone who works hard to make a more accessible, more enjoyable experience.

**Oh no ads track you! ** My full time job is literally managing Google ads. We barely tracked you personally as it was. We could anonymously target generally the things you were interested in buying or what you’ve recently been looking at online.

And then Google killed Google Analytics and it’s a shell of what it once was, and your data is even more anonymous!

If I work for a lawnmower company I couldn’t give a shit who you are or what you do online, all I care about is if you’re thinking about buying a lawnmower, so my client can show you what he’s got to offer. Then you can ignore the ads if you don’t like the product or its price point. That’s what Google does.

I’d rather that than be shown “generic Chinese cashgrab mobile game ad that doesn’t actually reflect the gameplay” ads

The guy worked hard to make possibly the best UI/UX on the platform. Either pay for his work or let him get the (barely any) money from showing ads to pay for his time. Do you work full time for free too?

There are companies that aggregate all the data from Google and other services to match your anonymous data to your actual person so they can match your address name and all personal information to what you do online

Catweazle

@ZippyZiggurat @drekly, it's called create incommings by surveillance advertising, I call it Spyware as is.
They sell your data to third parties, which apart of a violation of your privacy rights, is a big security risk, nobody can control how your data is traty and protected, several cases of dataleaks with even bank and medical data prove this. There are other methodes to create incommings which don't invade privacy.

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