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Apple Pauses Gambling Ads in App Store Pages After Developers Complain [Updated]
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Some of us are not ok with any ads at all. Where did you get the idea that "others are ok"?
Either Apple's target-advertising is bad (ads for gambling-apps on therapy-apps-pages), or Apple's target-advertising is genius (ads for gambling-apps on therapy-apps-pages), or they just had no other bought ads available for showing.
No idea which option of those three is the preferable explanation.
No idea which option of those three is the preferable explanation.
The article is primarily about developer complaints specifically regarding gambling ads which would imply that they are ok with other types of ads.
Incorrect. Every. Time
WFH bias is strong here but is misplaced. If you don't do the work, you don't keep your job regardless if you're home or in an office. You may be too irresponsible to work from home successfully, but plenty of others are or they'd be no longer employed. You can't slack off watching TV and keep your job, it just wouldn't happen. Open your eyes, and drop the biased attitude already.
I don't think it necessarily implies they are ok with other ads. Some developers have been saying that ads of unrelated apps are placed alongside their own apps in searches.
Again, the article and related tweets were about developer complaints regarding specific types of ads, not ads in general. If the issue was with all ads, there wouldn’t have been a need to specify just gambling ads.
Really? The article was a focus on gambling ads in particular. That doesn't mean omission of reports in that article about other displeasure with ads means there were necessarily none. I don't know what kind of logic that is.
For example, this article: https://appleinsider.com/articles/2...ling-app-ads-is-a-symptom-of-a-bigger-problem
Of course there are going to be some who don't like any ads just as there are some who are ok with ads (including gambling ads) but, again, this article was about developers complaining specifically about gambling ads not all ads. If their issue was with all ads, it wouldn't be necessarily to single out gambling ads.
Ads have been on the App Store for years now without mainstream complaint. But only now there’s furore because ‘out-of-category’ ads are appearing.
When have us consumers ever had a say on which ads we are shown? so why this trending discontent? Seems populist.
We've probably moved the goal post to a much lower standard so we haven't even noticed how ads have inundated our lives.
There was a time when in TV broadcast that commercials would appear in between segments of programming and not in the midst of it. Recall those days?
If ads have been appearing in the App store for years, I'll have to say I probably don't recall. I wouldn't be surprised if I don't recall because I have been so inundated with ads in my later adult years that I no longer realize they are ads or no longer realize something is advertising itself to me. Heck, that's also how propaganda works—it works without you realizing it's propaganda! So, again, goalpost has moved and not necessarily willingly or consciously. I wonder if you get that: that society can shift and we shift with it without even noticing, but when we do (coming to consciousness about it) we realize we don't like it. It's the proverbial frog in the boiling pot...
What do you want me to do? Stick a camera in every WFH person's house on the planet?
In all fairness to the person loosing everything to gambling I would suspect it is no different than heroin or cocaine, it is something hardwired in their brain and they are addicted. They don't see it as a choice they see an opportunity.