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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Unfortunately that seems to be the case with Google products (see YouTube on mobile). Most users might not even care about the excessive ads and Google knows that.

Luckily, there seem to be many alternatives on Android. If Apple was to ad-ify the App Store, you wouldn't have that many options (outside of jailbreaking and maybe the Altstore).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Google made 80% of its revenue from ads last year. No wonder they're trying to force ads everywhere they can

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That’s soon to change when regulations come in to force apple to allow sideloading.