>> But this mode of thinking makes no sense. If you put ads in your app YOU are responsible. If you use an ad service from a shady company that outsources to other shady companies then you're still responsible.
Then it comes back to the Play Store. They like having all those free apps. It makes users feel like their Andriod phone has whatever they need. Google needs to make apps searchable based on privacy settings. They need to encourage people to pay for user respecting apps. I'd happily pay a buck or two for lots of apps if only they didn't have add or try to get me to buy add-ons. Just give me upfront honesty about what I'm getting and I'll pay you for it. Stop hosting crapware in the app store!
Have you ever tried to convince someone to pay for something they believe they can get for free? The number of people who will pay monthly for user-respecting basic fundamentals like email is shockingly small.
Gmail might have been best of breed in 2004 on the basis of its superior spam filter, but that's certainly not the case now. In fact, with the recent change to the UI, Gmail now loads incredibly slowly or not at all on Firefox. It's bad in Chrome too, but much closer to unusable on FF.
No other webmail service I've ever used has given me the lag issues Gmail has.
because fastmail is better than the free one. Just as good in the common use cases, they don't make me the product, and when in the rare case where I have a tech issue their support is responsive. There are a couple other paid email providers that I'm told provide services that are good.
Then it comes back to the Play Store. They like having all those free apps. It makes users feel like their Andriod phone has whatever they need. Google needs to make apps searchable based on privacy settings. They need to encourage people to pay for user respecting apps. I'd happily pay a buck or two for lots of apps if only they didn't have add or try to get me to buy add-ons. Just give me upfront honesty about what I'm getting and I'll pay you for it. Stop hosting crapware in the app store!