Comment by thaumasiotes
9 days ago
> You can find tons of purely local apps tha[t] monetize themselves with a[d]s.
How do they do that without hitting the internet?
9 days ago
> You can find tons of purely local apps tha[t] monetize themselves with a[d]s.
How do they do that without hitting the internet?
Point 3 from the article is
>3. The network is optional
Ad SDKs usually allow caching ads for a period of time so that ads can still be shown while the device is temporarily offline.
It's "local first", not "local only".
Sorry, a "purely local app" isn't "local only"?
Not OP, but no.
IMHO, a fully local app is an app that can run locally with all the functionality, not that it's isolated from everything else.
Browser, email client (running locally on your device such as Mail.app, mutt, Outlook,...), Zed (text editor, runs locally but can check for updates... as can many other modern apps)...
You can hardcode ads into each build that don't need Internet access.
Well if you're gonna get all accurate on me...
i could be wrong but I think they're referring to the winrar model, where there are occasional "annoyances" that you can either ignore or pay to get rid of.