Tim Colby
2 min readMay 21, 2021

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Since the prime directive of mobile is to shovel a crap ton of crap ads to users is it any wonder why this issue should get fixed for any mobile app? I guarantee if ads were disappearing magically it would be fixed yesterday.

Who knows this could be some new security policy being rammed through a device OS line, for our own good. Maybe some new regulation that we get no matter what. Or, even thinking, 'maybe if we do nothing the users will never notice'.

Sure, stats tell the world that mobile has got the numbers, more than the old fashioned or legacy laptop or desktop devices world, I mean it’s like a revenue and profit equation, support legacy hardware and platforms or jump onto a better revenue stream and go all out on mobile. It's the money honey.

Sounds like a tin foil hat arg, and maybe it is, but since the world of program support is a major cost for applications and OS’s it’s possible fixing a mobile clapping machine is low priority next to keeping the prime directive going. Which is delivering ad crap 24/7/365 on mobile. (oh yeah, and other piles of crap too, lest we somehow not notice or forget how absolutely F'kd up mobile is)

If this rant sounds a little bit like ‘get off my lawn’ well, it probably is. Flash forward 20-30 years, antique stores will be selling bobble head figurines all holding on to tiny plastic slabs all staring at those tiny slabs. bobble bobble bobble.

Tune in next week as the ad world war with humans continues to turn and churn. In closing, may all your ad blockers and tracker blockers work flawlessly and give you peace, amen.

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Tim Colby
Tim Colby

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