I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
The other day I was playing some "free" racing game or other with my young nephew and the game was interrupted mid-flow without warning for video ads.
These were inappropriate for the audience (things like CNC routers and powerdrills).
They were training him to immediately find the "close" button and hit it without looking at what he was doing
They meant that you got dumped back into the game without any transition, so - boom - you're in the middle of a high-speed overtaking manoeuvre.
During 20 minutes of play we probably saw 20 ads which we were allowed to close after about 5 seconds each. That's absurd.
I've seen him play other games like this and it's way worse than browsing the web without an adblocker. Most of these games you can't even buy to get rid of the ads, afaik.
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The other day I was playing some "free" racing game or other with my young nephew and the game was interrupted mid-flow without warning for video ads.
I've seen him play other games like this and it's way worse than browsing the web without an adblocker. Most of these games you can't even buy to get rid of the ads, afaik.