When unavoidable ads appear in a product I’ve paid for, I stop using it

Mi 11i in hand with display showing lockscreen ads

Credit: Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority

Opinion post by
C. Scott Brown

Most people dislike advertisements. There are those who don’t mind them if they are unavoidable, but I shudder to think anyone out there actually enjoys ads.

Ads are a necessary evil, though. They help fund products and services that would otherwise not exist without them — with Android Authority being a good example. Without funds from advertisements, huge chunks of the internet simply wouldn’t exist, to say nothing of television shows, films, and even hardware like certain smartphones.

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