Ads in Free Apps Found to Swallow Up to 75% of Your Power

[house70]

[citation][nom]TunaSoda[/nom]AKA: Showing you the ads...[/citation]
by showing the ads I meant actually displaying them on the screen for you to see; the major power hog is what happens behind the scenes.
And no, I am not defending the process, I think having an ad-supported app should come with a detailed description of this kind of things, so the user can decide whether to pay a one time price for an ad-free version or get the so-called free version. I usually go for the former...

 

[alhanelem]

AdFree for android anyone?

unfortunately not everyone has a rooted smartphone/tablet

 

[nebun]

[citation][nom]thorkle[/nom]AdFree for android anyone? and AdBlock for windows? how do more people not use these...?[/citation]
it's called warranty....some of us don't want to root our overpriced smartphones...that's why

 

[youssef 2010]

Good thing that I have both Wi-Fi and Packet Data disabled most of the time

 

[youssef 2010]

[citation][nom]zybch[/nom]And this is why android still sucks so much. Its just such an unfinished platform its amazing it can run for more than 1/2 an hour at a time without crashing.[/citation]

Another Apple fanboy here. FYI, I have 3 android phones and they've never crashed.An app might hang from time to time, but that happens on every phone I've ever used.

Don't get me wrong, I don't hate Apple. I just don't like the fact that they sue the hell out of everybody. I think they filed more patents (and patent infringement lawsuits) than any other company in the world.

 

[holygigi]

AdAway + DroidWall = no drain from free apps.

 

[Dark Comet]

[citation][nom]house70[/nom]by showing the ads I meant actually displaying them on the screen for you to see; the major power hog is what happens behind the scenes. And no, I am not defending the process, I think having an ad-supported app should come with a detailed description of this kind of things, so the user can decide whether to pay a one time price for an ad-free version or get the so-called free version. I usually go for the former...[/citation]

I agree, having the option to pay to remove them should always be there. I don't understand why they don't, the end goal is to make profit after all. They must assume no one on Android wants to pay for anything.

 

[livebriand]

[citation][nom]merryjohn2[/nom]my buddy's mother makes $85 hourly on the computer. She has been without a job for eight months but last month her income was $21313 just working on the computer for a few hours. Read more on this web site [/citation]
That doesn't add up. You'd have to work for about 250 hours for that much money. If you work an 8 hour work week, 5 days a week, that's 6 weeks! Get out of here...

 

[fb39ca4]

hooray for ad blocking hosts files!

 

[aracheb]

[citation][nom]livebriand[/nom]That doesn't add up. You'd have to work for about 250 hours for that much money. If you work an 8 hour work week, 5 days a week, that's 6 weeks! Get out of here...[/citation]
well that means that this spammer are not even good at Math.

 

[eddieroolz]

Yep, not news ever since Flash ads became pervasive on PCs. It's always those damn ads consuming power...