I do, like any of us, have pet peeves. Among those is I don't like having ads shoved in my face and assumptions made for me. The internet is bad enough with sites loaded with ads and autoplay videos when you visit a site. On my laptop I have adblockers and block Flash as well to disable this crap, and ads are the number one source of malware infections so any site that wants me to disable my adblocker to use their site goes on my permanent #$&@list (you fill in the blanks).
Google and their Android system have taken the internet to a new low. I don't know about Apple as I don't use their products, but I suspect Google is not alone in this. I don't think this was Google's intention, it's what happens when you invite the wrong people to the party and they take over.
What has been PLR (private label rights) and MRR (master resell rights) software has become a standard on Google Play Store. These are software that can be re-labelled by someone who buys the rights to them. This has been a practice for years for some limited PC software; limited enough that the majority of you have probably never experienced PLR software. Well Google Play Store has changed that.
Do you really think all those apps are individually designed? Certainly many from known software publishers and some independent designers are, but when you start looking through the hundreds of titles in a search for apps like web browsers, pdf readers and other utilities and think that a lot of these apps look the same or very similar, well, you're right because they are. They are just re-labelled PLR apps with their ads inserted for your discomfort.
It has to be some mighty good software for me to recommend if it has ads. But for the most part I treat apps with ads the same as I do the cable/internet salespeople who constantly approach you at Walmart, I dismiss them quickly.
Unfortunately it seems like we have become conditioned to expect to be treated this way and accept it. I don't accept intrusions and disrespect. Big corporations and big retail especially have forced out small business and changed the attitude from "we're here for the customer" to "the customer is here for us". We're treated like we were born to be sold to 24/7 and privacy and peace of mind is something we don't deserve if it doesn't benefit somebody else financially.
My objective with the Android app reviews on this site is to filter out the crapware and only recommend those apps which have a usefulness and no ads. I'm not going to change the internet, and certainly won't be able to give a conscience to the basement dwellers responsible for crapping it up, but I can provide some recommendations for you to avoid some of the crap.
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