Should you use Ad-free blockers for Android and iPhone?
This is a thought provoking question to ask. I got to know this application over from Lifehacker which introduces an application for ROOTed phones that will block ads from displaying on your Android device.
The question is why does the developer include advertisements in the first place? I have written here that not all international developers are able to list their apps as paid version and thus go the ad support route.
This is so that they can monetize the application.
Incentive to innovate and maintain the application
Why is this important? The developers are spending their time to support, maintain and improve the application.
And while we shouldn’t be jealous that they are earning from it, we should be enabling them to have this incentive to continue to innovate and improve.
So what do you guys think? This is probably a good application but this places the developer at a very big disadvantage.
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you are 100% correct.
i’m an app dev. until i figure out a way to route around AdFree, I will not be spending the severe coin it will take to port my amazing app to Android