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Google Play Will Let Developers Earn More Money by Having Users Watch Ads in Exchange for Rewards

posted by takyon on Monday March 11 2019, @06:15PM   Printer-friendly
from the admobbed-up dept.

upstart writes:

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Google Play will let developers earn more money by having users watch ads in exchange for rewards

[In free-to-play games] you'll often be offered the ability to watch a video advertisement to receive some sort of bonus. This bonus can come in the form of double the in-game currency for X number of minutes, an extra chance at a particular level, or anything else that can benefit the user. Developers could add this feature with Unity Ads, but now Google has announced they are building it into the Google Play Billing Library or AIDL interface with only a few additional API calls. The featured is called a "rewarded product" and instructions on how to set it up can be found here.

This means the developer doesn't have to integrate any other SDK into their application or game which should reduce the work required to add this extra monetization opportunity. The feature is powered by Google's Admob technology so developers will have access to the large number of advertisers who they are working with.

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  • (Score: 2) by Arik on Monday March 11 2019, @10:07PM (5 children)

    by Arik (4543) on Monday March 11 2019, @10:07PM (#812931) Journal
    What's the best way to block this at the router?
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 11 2019, @11:31PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 11 2019, @11:31PM (#812975)

    This is why Google is against users having root access to their device. A hosts file and firewall would fix most of the problem cheaply. But no, can't have users deciding what does and does not happen on their device. Google knows best. Can't disable Google services. Can't uninstall locked third party programs.

    On an OS based on Linux mind. What has the world come to?

  • (Score: 2) by NateMich on Tuesday March 12 2019, @12:16AM (1 child)

    by NateMich (6662) on Tuesday March 12 2019, @12:16AM (#812993)

    What's the best way to block this at the router?

    You'd likely have to set up your own DNS that answers at 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4.

    At the very least. Google loves to ignore everything on your network and go straight to their own DNS resolvers.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 12 2019, @02:36AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 12 2019, @02:36AM (#813037)

      It may be useful to firewall log those IP to see if google is sending data there that it shouldn't

  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday March 12 2019, @05:31AM (1 child)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday March 12 2019, @05:31AM (#813085) Journal

    Pi-Hole maybe?

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 13 2019, @06:24AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 13 2019, @06:24AM (#813607)

      On a mobile phone? Without root?