"Fuck you, we're not paying": inside Unity’s Runtime Fee fiasco
"Fuck you, we're not paying": inside Unity’s Runtime Fee fiasco
A major partner told John Riccitiello personally that it will not pay the Runtime Fee – and in the strongest possible terms.
A major partner told John Riccitiello personally that it will not pay the Runtime Fee – and in the strongest possible terms.
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What the fuck is "applovin"?
I believe it’s an ad delivery service app developers can deploy in their app to earn revenue from ads delivered to users.
Gross.
There's crazy stuff like that on every website. Run a script blocker like noscript and it'll open your eyes.
They aren't talking about the website. They are talking about the article.
I do. In fact, I leave JavaScript off by default and only enable it temporarily and as needed, unless I really trust the site. But while I know there's a lot of that crap out there, I don't remember the names of them all, especially with uBlock Origin preventing most of it.
Isn't that super annoying now that JS frameworks are so widespread? (React / angular etc.)
Yes, it is. It's a price I'm willing to pay. The web is a malicious hellscape now, and I'd rather just not see something than give in to 38 trackers, 14 ad engines, a megacorp's federated login box, one or more captchas because they hate my VPN, etc etc just to see something that's really not going to add any value to my life anyway.
I do what I can with privacy addons, but is it really worth the time to figure out the bare minimum of what I need enabled so I can look at the Celebrity Baby Plastic Surgery Disasters website? I'd rather just click the back button and move on with my life.
A lot of sites are starting to use next.js (not sure if there's an angular equivalent), which is essentially server-side React, and the frontend JS picks up where the server left off.
If you want your articles crawled by search engines, you need some kind of default text representation. So you should be good most of the time blocking JavaScript if you mostly want the text content and are okay with some styling jank, and I don't expect that to change anytime soon. But you'll lose interactive features, so things like bank logins likely won't work.
You could always pay for stuff if you don't want ad
The advertising-as-income model is so baked into the internet now that not everything I use even offers paid tiers. That's probably true for MOST of it. Further, not everything removes ads even after paying for it.
Never mind the fact that I'll sometimes visit a site one time in my life as part of a search result and then never again. I'm definitely not paying for that.
Applovin is a as mediation platform for Unity.
In plain English what that means is your app doesn't just get ads from Applovin, but also Google, AdColony, and any other advertiser they support and you have an account with.
This is a good thing since it prevents companies like AdMob from having a defacto monopoly in ads shown, and are forced to compete so devs get paid more. But its also easier to implement ads since you are not getting conflicting modules from these devs.
I dont use applovin for this as I want more control on my app ads. And I paid for it by spending weeks just getting ad platforms to build when they are imported together.
I think Unity Ads was supposed to be the same thing, but I remember it being confusing to set up and never bothered.