I truly don't understand how this can be described as a 'purely greedy, evil' move. Some of the money that those ads generate go to independent developers looking to make income from their hard work, many of whom use this site. The more people that see the ads, the more ads Google sells, and the more money both Google and developers make.

Personally, I think it's selfish to block ads on applications and websites.

> Personally, I think it's selfish to block ads on applications and websites.

I tend to agree, but that's the user's choice. Google can't come into your house to make sure you read the ads on the newspaper page.

>Some of the money that those ads generate go to independent developers looking to make income from their hard work, many of whom use this site.

If the developer chose a model of making money that pisses of their users so much they go to the trouble of getting other software that does literally nothing but stop the developer's annoying monitorization model maybe the dev should work on a less offensive way to make money. After all, they've shown that users are invested in their app in some way, there must be a way to turn that into revenue.