How Block Blast harvests its players for ad money (ayoships.com)
33 points by motionlessveloc 5 hours ago
Jaxkr 2 hours ago
The fact that impossible puzzles are generated to bait rewarded-ad views is something I've always suspected in mobile games, but I dismissed it as a skill issue on my end.
MDTHLN 2 hours ago
> The lethal puzzle is a generator, and any rule can ask for it.
Ashamed of myself for getting halfway through the article before realising it was AI written.
iamacyborg an hour ago
Hah, you can literally tell from the subheader.
> Rules downloaded from their server decide your pieces, your score and your ads. One waits for an expensive ad, then asks for a hand you can’t place.