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>> That isn't free. Again, signing up for abuse of my privacy is not free.

Surely the logical extension of this is that no app with ads should be marked as "free". Your attention is not free. Right?

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The Google Play Store will show "contains ads" under the install button. Same for "contains in app purchases". Makes it much easier to see which app is really free.

This is a good policy, and the Apple App Store has done the same thing for a while.

Not just the attention, but also the knowledge of where my attention is, shouldn't be free. Right?

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