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Exactly. I hope Apple Arcade takes a big bite out of ad supported games on iOS.

However, if there is an option to pay for the games to get rid of ads, I have no problem with him publishing games and making money on either ads or people paying.

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As long as there's an option to remove them, I look at ad-supported games as a demo. I'll always gladly pay to remove the ads if I like the game enough to play it more than a couple times.

The ad-supported version can be a disaster for your privacy though.

Plus, a lot of apps don't remove their ad SDK even if you do pay to not "see" the ads, so you are still being tracked either way.

Can be, but it's possible to serve ads without any activity/data tracking. Not as profitable, but that's how it used to be done - simply guessing what the users may be interested in and A/B testing ads for various niches until you hone in on the most profitable ones.

Ads are pretty cancerous, but the easiest way to start monetizing free content/software.

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