How excessive advertising is destroying user experience. This pattern appears across 186 different app categories in our analysis of 156,000+ negative App Store reviews.
Excessive ad frequency
"Literally do not play this game your time will be mostly spent on ads!!!"
Excessive ads
"Game goes to an ad every 10 seconds. In order to use game, developer wants you to pay."
Excessive and intrusive advertising
"Why are there ads (an hour long, 3 hour long, etc) every 2 minutes, on a 20 minute video. Thats… gross."
Misleading advertising and unexpected charges
"I signed up for a free trial for a few days. They instantly charged my card for $33 and of course none of their options for customer service are working for me to make sure I get refunded."
Misleading free app claims
"It pretends to be free instead of being up-front about giving you a trial period."
Overwhelming presence of advertisements
"Every other post is 'sponsored', and the platform is flooded by vendors."
Excessive ads disrupting usage
"Every 10 seconds there is an ad, it's unbearable."
Excessive and intrusive ads
"Forced ads during gameplay ruined it for me. Have to delete now."
Intrusive and excessive ads
"'Ads every 20 seconds is miserable. How greedy can you be?'"
Intrusive advertisements
"Way too many pop-ups, I had like 6 in the first minute asking to upgrade."
Intrusive and excessive advertisements
"This is an ad machine, not a calculator."
Excessive/Disruptive Ads
"There were SOOO many ads and whenever I tried to watch the anime it gave me an ad and I couldn't even watch the anime at all"
Misleading 'ad-free' claims
"I paid for no ads and still have ads within the game pop up. Very irritating."
Missing critical items and content (Terra Blade, Moon Lord, Plantera, etc.)
"I don't like this guide because it doesn't even have Golem, the Terra Blade, Moon Lord, True Eye of Chuthulu, the Celestial Towers or Pillars, Plantera(I think), or the Lunatic Cultist"
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