On that note, I bought a GIF viewer app’s full version via in-app purchase and about a year later, they updated the app to have ads again and my “full version no ads” app got ads again and now i had to buy a subscription per month to be “ad free” needless to say I didn’t lol
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space@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Not only that. If you buy an app, you are at the mercy of it’s creator. If they decide they want to fill it with ads and tracking, there’s nothing you can do. You can’t rollback updates, you can’t install an older version from the play store. If they decide to remove it from the store, you won’t be able to install it any more.
Piwix@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Fog0555@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Well you can always use blokada.org (version 5, which runs on your phone). It stops most ads.
Piwix@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I set up a VPN tunnel to my home network and use pihole to block ads which worked on this app too, so that wasn’t a problem but the audacity to remove my paid-for full access was astoundingly awful
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
i use Adblock dns
hogmomma@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Did you let them know why you uninstalled?
itsnotits@lemmy.world 10 months ago
mercy of its* creator
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
The best thing is when someone makes legitimately the best application for its purpose (arguably the only good application for it), so you convince your friends to use it because it’s so useful, and then they cram it full of ads and bloat and make it borderline unusable, but your friends won’t switch to a different app (or even leave the app altogether) because it’s the only way they know how to do the thing
I’m talking about the 5e Companion app on Android. Anyone know any good alternatives? It used to be so good, but then they started adding Unearthed Arcana garbage to it, which almost entirely sucks ass, and when UA gets officially added, they have to add the official version separately because some people have already used the UA version to make characters. I want so badly to switch away from it, but I can’t find any good free alternatives that have all of the content from 5e.
I wish 5e.tools had a character sheet builder
TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I got into technology because I loved it. Now, ever bit of news I get I hate it a little bit more. What happened with improving things, sharing information and making the world better?
FlavoredButtHair@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Actually there’s websites with archives of old apk files for apps.
graymess@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Kinda hard to just trust those sites not to hide malicious shit in there.
jbk@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
That’s why Android apps must be signed. Tools can show an app’s certificate hash and if two app versions’ hashes match, they’re equally trustworthy / from the same source. I think APKMirror does this and it’s actually quite trusthworthy.
FlavoredButtHair@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Google them and see which one is safe.
dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
There are usually archives of versions for most apks for android. App updated to be shittier? Uninstall and install an older version of it from IA.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yup, looking at you, Vocabulary.com
psud@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I had one of the flight tracker apps, used it to identify planes passing my work lunch room’s window, and paid $5 for it to get it ad free. Then it went to subscription and made it’s free tier time limited instead of ad supported, so now I don’t use it. I can’t use an old version as it doesn’t work on newer versions of Android
SkippingRelax@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Zona a Traffico Limitato - buy I like the way you made the acronym work in english :)
psud@lemmy.world 9 months ago
That’s it. I was allowed to drive into one as I was booked into a hotel in the zone, I think that’s the slowest I ever drove for more than three metres
Retiring@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
Story of pretty much every good app ever.