With so many freemium mobile apps depending on revenue from animated ads, and the availability of phone cameras with face recognition, I’m surprised that we haven’t seen more ads require that you stare at the screen and watch the ads to the end, Black Mirror style

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There's laws (at least in some parts of the world), but most importantly Google and Apple aren't really interested in this I think... 

Companies used to be able to track/ attribute actions way better some years ago compared to now. Both Apple and Google have cut the ability to track where installs etc. come from, show you less granular data etc.

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I mean this could literally remain phone-side, with no privacy data shared back to a server.

If I get such an ad, I put the phone down, go do something else, and pick it up later.

I’m just glad those apps don’t require me to activate the face ID feature to prove that I’m paying attention (they could easily trigger it at the end of the ad, and if you fail to authenticate, the ad runs again lol)

I can’t imagine one day we will need a facial recognition to see an AD. That day I would probably open my phone only for wc and some few activities.