Ed Cryer <
ed@somewhere.in.the.uk> wrote:
Scrabble GO has a large advertising banner covering the scoreboard. Most
ads are for Adblock Plus, and money!
Does anyone know how to get rid of that banner? And don't bother telling
me to pay up.
Does the advertizing point back to the Adblock Plus web site? Or to
some other entity trying to get you to buy what you can get for free?
You cannot buy Adblock Plus from its owner. All you can do is
optionally donate to them.
https://adblockplus.org/en/donate
Um, you do know, right, that the vast majority of Android/iOS apps are
adware? It is very hard to find truly free apps (no ads anywhere
whether in a screen, within the settings, prompt to buy an upgrade, or
no ads ANYWHERE in or shown by the app).
Complain to the author of the Scrabble Go about its ad content, or not providing an ad-free version even if it's payware. That one is an
adware app. They're the ones pushing ads in your face. That's how they monetarized their app. Complain to them. Or install a global adblocker
or VPN with adblocker that blocks access to ad sources in any app.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXwM6C7xuTE
Just one example of adblocking across all apps.
However, since the app usually allocates the screen space to show the
ad, blocking it means you substitute the ad for blank space. That is,
where was the ad will instead be a blank space, so you haven't removed
the ad space from the app. The ad blocking results in blank space where
the ad would've been. If adblocking eliminates both the content and
element where the ad would've been, you end up cleaning the ad-ridden
app. If just the ad content gets blocked, but the app still displays
the element where it would've shown the add, you still get blobs of
blank space for the placeholders (elements in screen to show the ads).
Complain to the author of Scrabble Go (Scopely) about the obscuring
in-app advertisements, or find a less rude or truly ad-free scrabble app
(I didn't check to see if there any, but I would not be surprised if
there were no ad-free scrabble apps).
https://apps.apple.com/nz/app/scrabble-go-new-word-game/id1215933788
"Free: Offers In-App Purchases"
Yep, it's adware. Seeing ads is the cost for most free apps. It's how
they monetarize their app. A global adblock can make an app unusable,
or still ugly with remnant blank space. Complain to the app author (
https://www.scrabblemobile.com/) about the ads, or not providing an
"upgrade" ad-free version of their app. Some app authors let you buy an ad-free version of their app. However, many don't bother maintaining an
eStore from where to purchase their app, or use the play store's account management. Since they monetarized their app, they may get enough
revenue that way, and not bother with providing a paid-for ad-free app.
I did not see Scopely offering a paid-for ad-free version of their
Scrabble app, so I doubt they will cater to user complaints asking to
get rid of their in-app ads.
https://www.igeeksblog.com/best-scrabble-games-for-iphone-ipad/
That just someone's hit list of scrabble-like apps. Only a couple are
free. The others have in-app purchases, but you don't if that means
on-screen ads, dismissable popups, or ads somewhere in the settings.
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