Wondering if I part with 10 euros, will it get rid of some these (new?) ads when I surf here? Just curious. If so, for how long? I have zero problem giving back in this manner, because I've gotten tons of great ideas as a member, I am simply curious to see if directly giving money gets one anything more than a user who doesn't cough up receives.
No. Add block extensions in your browser will though. As will any number of dedicated shareware ad-block programs available online, i.e Ad Muncher.
Donating to XDA would be nice if you do this though as it's the ads that help finance the upkeep of the site. I feel if you block the ads you should at least donate.
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I was just treated to my first special targeted ad (ads, really, plenty of the same one) via pandora about how I should pay for an app to block numbers (and text! Wow!). What better way to entice me than invading a great service that I used to enjoy without ads! So I got to thinking, what does pandora do to figure out I hate ads on my phone (ad blocker?, good stuff) and determine I also hate privacy invasion? If I listen to pandora and order a playboy subscription can I get some ads for penis enlargement?
Are there any different ads on pandora? And this company that paid them off (can't remember the name of the app or the company- REALLY effective ad something about my sacred privacy), is anyone downloading the app because they heard the ad? Just curious.
Hey Guys,
I have a app developed that I have been charging for use, but i am thinking about switching to a ad model and make my app free. I was wondering what advertising options are out there.
I know that admob owns a pretty big market share, but was wondering what are my options regarding how best to choose an advertiser, what are the other advertisers I have to choose from, and is there a benefit of one advertiser vs. another? Which one would pay more? I know this is dependent on how popular my app is.
Thanks for any info provided!!!
I personally use AdMob in my app. It also integrates Google AdSense ads into your app for when AdMob doesn't have an ad to show. I only just released my app a few weeks ago, but it seems like it will generate a pretty decent revenue. I searched before I implemented AdMob, but I really didn't find anything else.
Ed
wow...so admob has a monopoly of sorts in the market eh? So people use admob or get no ad revenue at all?
What about for the apple iphone? I heard there was iAds, and I guess admob as well? Is one better than the other?
can anyone provide anymore insight, or know of a forum which is popular among android/iphone app developers to better answer my question? There don't seem to be that many app developers browsing these forums.
thanks!!!
Personally, i use admob and have 2 apps using it. I don't make much from it (usually around $0.20 a day) but it's better than nothing i guess
As for which ad company to use, it doesn't really matter. They all pay out roughly the same: Millennial, AdMob, JumpTap, MobFox, etc. It's just down to personal preference really
misc86 said:
Hey Guys,
I have a app developed that I have been charging for use, but i am thinking about switching to a ad model and make my app free. I was wondering what advertising options are out there.
I know that admob owns a pretty big market share, but was wondering what are my options regarding how best to choose an advertiser, what are the other advertisers I have to choose from, and is there a benefit of one advertiser vs. another? Which one would pay more? I know this is dependent on how popular my app is.
Thanks for any info provided!!!
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Can you briefly say something about your app? Is it game and what kind?
How many downloads have you had so far?
When it comes to in-app ads the industry offers much more than just regular banners. There are other ad formats that deliver much higher cCPM than banners but their implementation depends on the kind of app you have.
I work for LeadBoltApps - our speciality is Content Locks for example; Ad mob is mostly banners; Airpush does Push Notifications and so on. Hope that helps.
My experience with Ad Networks
I have a weather app and needed to get ads going immediately at launch to fulfill my contractual obligations for the weather data provider.
I tried both Inmobi and Millennial Media. The problem with Inmobi is that they want to review your app and approve it for ads once it is up and available from the store.
Millennial Media was much easier to work with. Ads were running in my test app even before launch. There wasn't any manual approval hurdle to jump through.
I also tried to work with YP.com (AT&T Interactive) since my app uses location and they pay good rates for local ads. They wouldn't talk to me until I get 1M pageviews per month.
I'm thinking of removing the app and just going through a little annoyance just to help the developers. I'm not sure how ad blockers work on the financial end so can someone please help me know.
Thanks in advance.
they do
that's why i don't use them. ads are tolerable, i would rather pay the devs in this way for their amazing works
I think there are two types of ads. One only pays the developer if a user clicks on it, and two prepays the developer just for the spot. If you're the type of person who never clicks on ads, I think developers are unaffected. Just a guess.
I wish there would be a version of AdFree that would just block them in the browser. I don't mind ads in apps and want to support the devs, but too many of the sites I visit are plastered with ads.
Yes, devs are not being paid the money they would otherwise be paid if you use an adblocker. In theory it might be possible to design an application that downloads the images and then subsequently deletes them (I know this is possible in browsers) which would remove the ad while also paying the dev, but that is not how AdFree functions and I'm not sure if it's even possible to do with an app; such a thing might require modifying the app's source code.
Yes, that is why I believe ad blockes are wrong and I never use one. If you use someone's free app they deserve the small amount of revenue they get from ads.
Hi,
I just wanted to rant about the current state of application ads on Android.
Over the past month, I've noticed an increased occurrence of those malicious "battery upgrade" ads in my games and apps.
Back in September/October, I got a few and I complained to the domain holder (ENOM) and their server hoster. Both of them neglected to email me back, and the site still remains online.
They seemed to disappear for a while, but since around New Years, the ads have resurfaced. Almost every free game I've played over the past two weeks has had them. Angry Birds, Super Stickman Golf, Words With Friends, Air Control Lite, to name a few...
I've contacted at least three ad distribution networks over the past two weeks, JumpTap, TapJoy, and Mojiva. All three have ignored my emails.
I've tried talking to the app developers, and they seem to be responsive to my initial complaints, but acting on them seems to be another matter.
While I realize that because I'm rooted, I could just block the ads by hand, but I think the more responsible thing would be for these ad distribution networks to actually look into the things they are advertising on our devices.
If you're an app developer, I'd like to ask that if you have a choice of whose ads get displayed in your applications, take a hard though about the ads that are also being pushed to your application's users.
I'm just mad about the whole thing. If ICE/DoHS can take down any site they feel, why can't malware developers suffer the same fate?
Thanks
Hi bunder9999,
My name is Saad and I work for Tapjoy. I wanted to bring to your attention that Tapjoy had already turned off and removed the developer for "battery upgrade" about 10 days ago. Please let me know if you want to discuss anything about this. You can send me email at [email protected].
Regards
Saad
Thank you. Now that I poke through my inbox, I see that you did indeed mail me back. edit: But that doesn't change the fact that you allowed the ads to begin with.
Got two emails today (surprise, surprise.)...
Rovio: "We're trying!"
Mojiva: (In so many words... yes, they were kindof nasty about it.) "Prove it or f*** off." My response: "Pull out an android device and install the malware yourself."
While I'm here, I thought I would post some comments made by some of my fellow Android users...
"i think it is awesome that you do this type of thing and more people should... you are pretty much an internet don quixote"
"more people need to step and say this type of s*** is unacceptable, and its really only apathy that doesn't stop ad companies from really taking this s*** seriously"
"your efforts are sisyphean, though noble"
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I'm just going to post this here, as proof that I'm not off my nut, as Mojiva's final stance seems to be.
http://www.virustotal.com/file-scan...8bbb35635f8c6c7a044ff2b28fcd01dfa4-1326204931
edit: rather than waste a post on something nobody seems to care about, i got another ad today, from another ad-network, inmobi.
email sent. i was a little more diplomatic in my email this time, but somehow i don't feel that they will be anymore receptive than Mojiva was.
i wish android market was a little more like Apple app store. Too many crappy apps made it into the market without any filtering.
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i wish android market was a little more like Apple app store. Too many crappy apps made it into the market without any filtering.
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I couldn't disagree with you more. Sure, the App Store has a much higher percentage of quality apps, but I believe the filtering is preventing a lot of aspiring developers from getting their apps out there. I'm just afraid that, were I to get an iphone, the app I desperately want is being blocked by apple for one reason or another. I'd rather sift through hundreds of crappy apps and find the one I want, than sift through 50 and not get a single one that does what I need it to do.
And there is some filtering in the market. It's just not overly strict. The beauty of android is that it is OPEN!
Just a thought...
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I couldn't disagree with you more. Sure, the App Store has a much higher percentage of quality apps, but I believe the filtering is preventing a lot of aspiring developers from getting their apps out there. I'm just afraid that, were I to get an iphone, the app I desperately want is being blocked by apple for one reason or another. I'd rather sift through hundreds of crappy apps and find the one I want, than sift through 50 and not get a single one that does what I need it to do.
And there is some filtering in the market. It's just not overly strict. The beauty of android is that it is OPEN!
Just a thought...
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what he said
you can easily block all the Ads, and ignore all the SPAMs
i'll suggest AVAST for Android, does a great job at that, as for Ads, there are tons of 3rd party apps to block Ads
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bunder9999 said:
Hi,
I just wanted to rant about the current state of application ads on Android.
Over the past month, I've noticed an increased occurrence of those malicious "battery upgrade" ads in my games and apps.
Back in September/October, I got a few and I complained to the domain holder (ENOM) and their server hoster. Both of them neglected to email me back, and the site still remains online.
They seemed to disappear for a while, but since around New Years, the ads have resurfaced. Almost every free game I've played over the past two weeks has had them. Angry Birds, Super Stickman Golf, Words With Friends, Air Control Lite, to name a few...
I've contacted at least three ad distribution networks over the past two weeks, JumpTap, TapJoy, and Mojiva. All three have ignored my emails.
I've tried talking to the app developers, and they seem to be responsive to my initial complaints, but acting on them seems to be another matter.
While I realize that because I'm rooted, I could just block the ads by hand, but I think the more responsible thing would be for these ad distribution networks to actually look into the things they are advertising on our devices.
If you're an app developer, I'd like to ask that if you have a choice of whose ads get displayed in your applications, take a hard though about the ads that are also being pushed to your application's users.
I'm just mad about the whole thing. If ICE/DoHS can take down any site they feel, why can't malware developers suffer the same fate?
Thanks
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I also got the same feedback once but i could easily resolve this problem with my ad distributor as they block those ads for me..
"Free App: Battery upgrade" - sleazy ads
Hi all,
I found this topic, and think that it's the good one
Since some days, I have a strange ads in my notification bar, which displays: "Free App: Battery upgrade"
I launched some tools like Lookout or AVG Antivirus, but they didn't find any malware.
Does a specific tool exist to find this kind of malware, or maybe a way to find which app raised this bad ads ?
(last installed apps is Bubble level, but many apps are updated often, so I don't have any idea of which one could cause that )
Well done ,learn more
If it can help people (and it should help ), I found the solution of my problem of sleazy ads:
I installed from market Airpush detector (some other apps exists), which simply detects which apps contains ads (type Airpush), and propose to uninstall them.
At the end, it's simple. I'm very happy that these kind of tool exist, but I'm very surprised that such [email protected]\`@^ ads could be displayed in the notification bar
One of your ads just redirected me to a site that told me that my Samsung Galaxy tab 3 got infected by a virus!
I didn't even click on it, I think.
The message was in my native language (german)
Pls try to fix this!
Some users could fall victim too such scams.
I guess your possibilities might be limited but maybe you can talk to your ad delivery networks to ban such ads and use better techniques to prevent such ads from appearing on their networks. (other websites have these issues as well)
This definitely wasn't a nice experience.
Sometimes ad blockers have their advantages (blocks viruses/scam/phishing) so if you don't want to loose people and get no money for showing ads you should do something about this
Regards,
Djfe
Why on earth did you click on the adverts?
I'm fairly sure most users will be more suprised by the fact that there are still people who don't use an ad blocker, especially on a tech site.
XDA doesn't individually approve each ad. Those are generated by, ususally, Google Adsense, based on your own browsing history.
Not to mention, nobody here should ever fall for 'you Android device has a virus'. This is a website for developers by developers. The fact that Android can't be infected by a virus is common knowledge to everyone here. XDA users are too tech-savvy to be fooled by something that ridiculous.
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Its not always good to use them
ShadowLea said:
Why on earth did you click on the adverts?
I'm fairly sure most users will be more suprised by the fact that there are still people who don't use an ad blocker, especially on a tech site.
XDA doesn't individually approve each ad. Those are generated by, ususally, Google Adsense, based on your own browsing history.
Not to mention, nobody here should ever fall for 'you Android device has a virus'. This is a website for developers by developers. The fact that Android can't be infected by a virus is common knowledge to everyone here. XDA users are too tech-savvy to be fooled by something that ridiculous.
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upto some extend you are right but sometime you should allow some non-intrusive adds to get displayed. Well those people who are non rooted may face such problems. Well the websites like xda, facebook and countless more are working because of adds...i am not against the add blocker but its not always advised.
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upto some extend you are right but sometime you should allow some non-intrusive adds to get displayed. Well those people who are non rooted may face such problems. Well the websites like xda, facebook and countless more are working because of adds...i am not against the add blocker but its not always advised.
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Most of us use Tapatalk or the XDA app when on our Android devices. Those don't show apps
I'm not rooted either. You don't need root to use Adblock Plus in Firefox, even on Android. It's just a plugin in the browser.
Most of us are more than willing to help XDA by paying (For instance for the XDA Forum app), but we refuse to have to deal with intrusive ads. (Ironic, since I'm in advertising.)
Facebook isn't working because of the ads. Facebook is working because they earn millions selling your data.
i won't go into details
ShadowLea said:
Most of us use Tapatalk or the XDA app when on our Android devices. Those don't show apps
I'm not rooted either. You don't need root to use Adblock Plus in Firefox, even on Android. It's just a plugin in the browser.
Most of us are more than willing to help XDA by paying (For instance for the XDA Forum app), but we refuse to have to deal with intrusive ads. (Ironic, since I'm in advertising.)
Facebook isn't working because of the ads. Facebook is working because they earn millions selling your data.
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allow some advertisements. won't gonna debate what anybody i know what all websites to...:good:
Well If I have clicked on the adverts then that was accidentally
yes most users on here are technical, but some are also noobs trying to search for roms for their devices
Android can be infected by viruses but not without the users interaction (the play store is pretty safe so you would need to download apps from suspicious sites)
Android only cannot be infected by drive-by-downloads
and no website would be able to warn you about something like that
I know that xda cannot filter adverts, but Google adsense might be able to do that if you report malicious ads to them
I'm waiting for the last promised update for my device (Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 -> Kitkat)
then I will root it/switch to a custom rom
on my rooted smartphone I'm using an adblocker (that replaces the host file)
Firefox isn't really good, the performance is very bad and it is still very buggy on some unoptimized sites
else I would use it
Chrome works the best on my devices
FF might work better on high-end devices/current devices but I don't own one at the moment (my devices are from 2011 and 2013)