Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮Valve ban advertising-based business models on Steam, no forced adverts like in mobile games https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/valve-ban-advertising-based-business-models-on-steam-no-forced-adverts-like-in-mobile-games/
R.L. Dane 
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Great, now do mobile the same way. XD
I remember hanging out with a family member who came to visit maybe not quite 10 years ago. The little one had an iPad mini chock full of games.
I saw how they all showed full-screen unskippable ads, and I was utterly flummoxed.
I had no idea how bad the app store had gotten.
I can't imagine what it's like now.
Tom Walker@rl_dane @gamingonlinux Unfortunately if you let younger kids install their own games on an iPad this is very hard to avoid. The first ad leads to a game with double the ads, which leads to a game with double that, and so on.
I can't imagine the challenge that must be, but I'd also urge all parents to never allow such assholish behavior from technology to become normative in your children's lives, for how will they ever fight for freedom if they've grown up enslaved?
I know that's extreme language, but I think it's kind of an extreme, black-and-white, call a spade a motherfucking spade kind of year.