When we use premium applications, it’s clear for us how that company is making money. They are selling a product. We should avoid freemium business cause at the first they don’t charge us but why? how they are making money?
Avoid Freemium
Annoying ads are the first method that still your personal information and make money for the companies. They are gathering lots of data to guess your interests and serve you ads. Whether you click or just watch an ad it will make money for the companies cause they already gave your information to advertiser.
How much do online advertisers really know about you? We asked an expert
https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/how-do-advertisers-track-you-online-we-found-out/
Sometimes there is an ad and you don’t even know it. It’s called Affiliate Marketing. They don’t show you any pop ads but there is a link which redirect you to purchase what you need and now they can track your purchasing. It can be a link of another apps inside an app but from different companies.
Some freemium apps are serving ads and selling subscriptions! and No It’s not a clear subscriptions plan. It has several options to confuse you. Unclear free trial periods, unclear offers!
That’s why Apple, Google recently launched a policy to solve these issues by forcing companies to explain in details about subscriptions. But who is going to read it? 😵
It’s clear for us how premium companies are making money. They are selling a product.
Use Premium
Premium applications have NO Ads, you get most of the features at first, the price and tax are clear. They use less internet cause they don’t constantly getting ads!