bloatware apps on your Android devices?

Have you ever deal with those of the bloatware apps (or sometimes games, albeit rarely) that comes pre-loaded with any of your Android devices since your childhood? If so, because I wasn't the only one who used to deal with them per each of the Android device(s), though I couldn't able to take some serious actions with them except for simply disabling them by default. Without further ado, let me list various of my Android devices that particularly have/had some of those bloatware apps that comes/came pre-loaded with each of them.

Note : Those of the Google apps that come/came pre-loaded with some of the devices aren't/weren't count, because most of them are indeed highly crucial for each of the Android devices themselves (most importantly GMS and GSF), unless most of them are now no longer supported especially for those ones that were existed since more than a decade ago. This exact trait also applied with some of the Meta apps as well, except I only use few of them for now.

A. Samsung Galaxy Y (2011)

From what I remembered, it only had QuickOffice. Not sure for the rest of them though.

B. Advan T1C and T1Ci tablets (2012-2013)

• SlideMe Market (a some sort of online app vendor that roughly resembled Aurora Store),
• Notepad (unknown developer), and
• apkInstaller (unknown developer)

C. Asus Zenfone 5 (2015) and Asus ZenPad C (2016)

• certain useless proprietary Asus apps (Party Link, PC Link, WebStorage, What's Next, etc.),
• MyAsus,
• Amazon Kindle: Reading App (Amazon Mobile LLC),
• Clean Master (Cheetah Mobile)*,
• Omlet (a social media app that vaguely resembled those of the popular ones like WhatsApp, Instagram's DM chat, Line, Telegram, BlackBerry Messenger [now defunct], and so on [albeit this exact 🍳 one wasn't so popular]),
• Zinio, and
• Data Transfer (FutureDial)

* means it is now completely defunct due to security breach issues that was occurred

D. Asus Zenfone Max Pro M1 (2019)

• MyAsus, and
• Babe (Baca Berita, some sort of Indonesian news portal app that resembles Google News)

As for the bonus, I also recently have a 2019 Realme C2 which also pre-loaded with some bloatware apps in there, though I was able to remove them carefully using command-line ADB tricks on my 💻. Just for the heck of it, here is my short list exclusively about it for bit of fun comparison:

• Opera browser (regular one, not the Mini one if I'm not mistaken),
• J&T Express mobile app,
• Jakarta Baca Lite (similarly to Babe, another Indonesian news portal app that resembles Google News if I'm not mistaken),
• Lazada, and
• Vova

If you have your own short stories related to this in each of your Android devices since your childhood, feel free to mention those of the bloatware apps that came with your Android devices in the comments section below if your memory still serves it right. That's basically it for what I could particularly say to this, and as always, thanks for reading this (rather short) article.

The failure of me "fixing" the faulty Redmi 5 Plus 📱...

As you may know, I actually keep this particular old 2018 Xiaomi Redmi 5 Plus 📱 (3 GB of RAM, 32 GB of internal eMMC storage), which specifically has it's own strange problem where it only blinks it's own white LED notification indicator light every single time I plug it into the power outlet using any 📱 chargers. Even if I actually know about the actual problem itself judging by how both of my parents told me if I recklessly bring it to any 📱 service center around my hometown (including that one repairman that I know since my childhood, because he was one of my neighborhoods of my childhood 🏠), that will cost similarly to purchasing a brand new modern day Android device. In the meantime though, I ever attempted to "fix" it by myself specifically using my 💻 with two of those separate programs, which those were Mi Flash Tool and QFIL, but of course they both ended up failing for obvious reasons that I couldn't able to do them by my hands.

Before I explained about my failure of me "fixing" it, let me tell you about the background story about the entire device itself. Back in those days, my mom purchased this particular 📱 in order to replace her old white Oppo Neo 7. This was her daily driver device that lasted about 3 years, until she decided to replace it's job with Xiaomi Redmi Note 9 Pro. Upon she replaced it with the Redmi Note 9 Pro, she gave it to my dad by replacing his old black Oppo Neo 7. It was lasted for 2 years until the aforementioned problem itself suddenly occurred on him. After the said problem itself occurred, my mom immediately gave her Redmi Note 9 Pro to him, and replaced it with her current Oppo A77s (?). Since then, the Redmi 5 Plus itself remains in that exact state, even if I ever tried to bring it to service center for multiple times, but the repairman always refused me to do so for that exact reason that I mentioned earlier.

Now, as for the way how I tried to "fix" it by simply connecting it to my 💻, I had to ensure if the device itself must be detected as "Qualcomm HS‑USB QDLoader 9008 (COMnn)" instead of "QUSB_BULK" on my Windows 💻's Device Manager, specifically on "Ports (COM & LPT)" section. After I did several tricky steps in order to connect it properly to my 💻 (including the way how I installed the correct Qualcomm driver on my 💻), I attempted to "resurrect" it with two of those programs that I originally meant to do so, which those were Mi Flash Tool and QFIL, respectively. Even if I also downloaded the correct official stock Global Stable Fastboot ROM itself, unfortunately they both simply failed after several seconds right after I clicked the "Clean all" button on Mi Flash Tool or "Download" button on QFIL. They both failed due to their respective reasons, which those were Mi Flash Tool's timeout error and QFIL's Sahara fail... Either because of my USB cables were underpowered or other causes that are related to it, I obviously have no clue for troubleshooting it specifically on my own, even if I actually know about the way how the entire device itself suddenly got that exact problem since then. 

Well then, there's not much else that I could particularly say to it apart from the fact it still remains limbo after all these years. I feel like I want to actually fix it, but since I already discovered those issues on both of those programs that are installed on my 💻 which meant to do so, I doubt if I can try that again later for sure. If you have one (or some) of your Android devices which has one of those problems, feel free to share your own story particularly in the comments section if your memory serves it right. Anyway, that's particularly it for what I could say to it, and as always, thanks for reading this particular article.

plants vs. zombies 2's latest update... (hint: ads)

Note : I originally made this particular article when the problem itself used to exist at the moment. However, since they actually fixed it later on, I originally didn't want to create this article, but I decided to do so anyway...... because why not.

Yet another fairly short article that I made here, but it's hard to believe it if the vanilla Plants vs. Zombies 2's latest update has it's own major problem where it is now consists of random video ads (just like other two mobile Plants vs. Zombies like what I explained them in one of my previous articles that I created just before). Not only the fact it is already applied to any newer players since somewhere in August of 2025 with those of the dreadful limited time ad-free subscriptions, but now it is also shockingly applies to certain veteran players like I do, which I already purchased certain plants and resources since a while ago... However, since I equipped my 📱 with the AdGuard DNS on it (either from private DNS or both of their respective IPv4 addresses), it seems to work 🆗, though they somehow hardcoded them with the way how that one endless Marigold loading screen always appears instead of those random video ads every single time I completed any levels on each of it's own game modes that are available on there (either from standard Adventure Mode*, Pinata Party*, Arena, or Penny's Pursuit), so I have to manually force close the game and re-open the entire game itself every single time when it happens, which causing my 📱's 🔋 to drop significantly faster than it should. 

* unless if there's a Zen Garden button, which simply skips those ads completely...

According to one of the internet citizens out there, it turns out if this occurs simply because of an unknown bug, according to some people who works at the modern day Electronic F****... However, not too long since this bug existed thanks to how majority of the internet citizens who still playing this particular Plants vs. Zombies game were highly frustrated by it, they actually listened the aforementioned problem itself by fixing the said bug itself later on. Even though they probably stated like so, I have a doubt if this particular hotfix will stay in their next subsequent updates though (since the ad-free pack is still present at the moment), despite it's horrible state that this game currently suffering nowadays since they outsourced their works to that one company in India since somewhere in 2022. Again, that's basically it for what I could particularly say over this awful update of the vanilla Plants vs. Zombies 2 as a whole, even if it is now back to how it should be... Despite this, I have no clue if I eventually decide to download some of their fan-games or mods that perform way better than it anyway.

Archive: Quick experience with my Asus ZenPad C Android tablet (2016)

You probably recognize if I actually used to have yet another Android tablet besides both of those old Advan ones that I mentioned in some of my older posts that featured them? Obviously no, thanks to that one nearly 9 year old Blogspot article that explained about it and those of the other two aforementioned tablets that I made from 2016 (though I accidently deleted all of those pictures of themselves, leaving them with just "❗" marks), which coincidently also the same year where I purchased this particular tablet. Without further ado, let me tell my own quick story about the aforementioned device itself right away... (yes, "quick" because why not)

A. Purchasing the device itself...

Believe or not, I purchased this particular tablet because I used to look at one of those popular physical catalogs that featured the review of it before, simple as that. Although I noticed some weaknesses that this thing delivered according to how they initially reviewed it in there, but that didn't stop me for purchasing it from one of the local cell phone stores in my hometown, which costed around IDR 2.000.000 (which means it was my most expensive tablet that I ever purchased among all of them).

B. Specifications...❓

Unfortunately, I couldn't remember the full specifications for this particular tablet. However, I still remembered the model number of it, which was P01Y, and it originally ran on Android 5.0. The amount of RAM was probably similar to what my old Zenfone 5 had, but I'm not 💯% sure. Also, just like many average Android devices that they were available on sale in those times (or even today), it had two SIM card slots and a single microSD card slot, respectively... As of the other stuffs that originally came with it from it's own box, it came with it's own microUSB cable, adapter, instructions, and the 1-year warranty card.

C. The experience of it, but...

There's not much else that I could particularly say to it apart from the fact it performed almost identically to what my old Asus Zenfone 5 would do when it comes to basic stuffs in general (including game tests, albeit it was much less amount of time), except it's own internal storage space was 4 GB lower than that of my old Zenfone 5. Which means, if I put too much files or apps on it, it eventually led into that dreaded insufficient storage space notification. There were no absolute option apart from the fact I must uninstall bunch of apps that I didn't need in there (including some of those bloatware ones). Unfortunately though, I was unable to uninstall them because I'd only able to disable them natively by myself instead of doing so straight away (unless if I had a knowledge to access some third-party apps or certain methods in order to do so).

As for the camera itself, the quality of it was roughly similar to my old Zenfone 5, with an exception of how this one simply didn't have the autofocus on it's own single rear camera... The picture quality of it was mildly mediocre, and so for it's own video recording too (which was somewhat lower volume but noisier sounds compared to my old Zenfone 5). Even if this particular tablet had THAT exact amount of internal storage space, at least I was able to save my saved pictures and saved videos separately on my own microSD card that I used to equip in there (coincidently, the microSD card that I used to equip in there is the same one that I'm currently using on my Asus 📱 that I'm heavily using it right now since 2019, which I also used it initially on one of my old Advan tablets too since I purchased that particular microSD card from then).📷📹

(this was taken when it crashed right after i unlocked it from it's own lock screen...)

Apart from that major insufficient storage space issues that I mentioned just earlier, it also had another issue where I tried to unlock it right from the lock screen, it immediately crashed the entire operating system then rebooted straight after by itself for some odd reasons. This occurred numerous times, and it eventually fixed by itself for unknown reasons that I had no clue about how come it initially occurred just before... With the weird state that it specifically had, I only used it for several months by myself until I decided to give it away to my cousin in the same year where I purchased it instead of selling it to someone for mildly steal price like what I did with my old Samsung Galaxy Y (or on the worst cases similarly to what I did to one of those Advans, smashing it), but he probably didn't satisfy by how it performed which caused he ended up purchasing his own better Android device later on (though he also used to have his old Evercoss tablet that performed similarly to one of my old Advan tablets).

Since then, I had no clue whether if he still keep it or not, due to the fact I no longer noticed the aforementioned tablet itself anymore after few months later... Well then, that concludes about my short archive story particularly about this Android tablet that I used to own there for several months within that year. With plenty of those flaws that it specifically had, I doubt it if I can purchase another Android tablet again, since most of those modern day Android devices will perform much better than one of those. Although there are some modern day Android tablets out there, but I absolutely have no clue about which one that I want to purchase in case if I need it...... Only the time will tell about the actual truth particularly about it soon.

my Android 📱's performance suddenly did this... (and eventually...)

After that one occurrence where my 6 year old Android 📱 suddenly got it's own original 🔋 just inflated by itself in the last year which I was able to troubleshoot it, but then in this year, it's own performance suddenly went totally dropped where my 📱's entire old Android 9 (🥧) operating system just lagged horribly. Seriously, it's own entire operating system literally did so because I was once opened one of the random apps which I rarely used it for a while, but then it suddenly led into the aforementioned problem itself which I couldn't even get rid of it by myself... Well then, it's time to find the actual truth about how come if it suddenly occurred initially like so, until how I was able to troubleshoot the problem itself later on.

As what I clearly mentioned just earlier, I was once opened one of the random apps that I rarely used it for a while (for this case, it was one of those random floating browser apps that I was officially installed on it from the Play Store). The reason about how come if I decided to open the aforementioned app itself, it's purely because I was so bored, simple as that... However, right when I demonstrated the app's key feature of it, instead of working properly as what it should be, it just caused my entire 📱 just lagged absurdly by all of the sudden. This particular sudden total lag problem literally existed, even if I already uninstalled the aforementioned app that probably caused this to occur initially. It also made the matters worse, no matter if I kept restarting it numerous times, deleting unnecessary files on it's own internal storage, installing some antivirus and cleaner apps on it, or tweaking some stuffs on it's own settings (precisely on it's own developer options section), this particular problem always returned by itself after roughly several minutes depending on which apps or mobile games that I opened (ranging from those of the light ones, until all the way to those of the heavy ones), or on the worst cases, it occurred by itself during it was on standby. During this occurred, it literally struggled severely to open almost any apps or any mobile games that I tried to open them specifically on it (which either they went unresponsive or they just crashed instead), and so for it's own System UI itself. It also caused my 📱's back part of it went overheated as well, but it was mildly less compared to those times when it used to equip with it's own original 🔋 that got suddenly inflated in the last year though.

Even if this lag problem existed, but I just found out about how come if my 📱 suddenly did this by all of the sudden. It turned out if certain system background apps literally bloated almost my entire 📱's RAM for severely odd reasons, which I was able to check it from one of the options of it's own developer options despite it's unresponsive state that it had, specifically right during I tried to access the aforementioned section itself... However, I was able to fully troubleshoot it by bringing it into the same service center where I used to replace it's own original 🔋 with the better one in the last year, by simply resetting it's own entire Android operating system itself back to it's factory settings for relatively cheap price (which was exactly IDR 50.000 for doing so). Though I obviously lost all of my own data and all of those progresses that I saved on it's own internal storage, but I was able to restore whatever else that I used to do those stuffs that I usually do on it, but not all of them though (unless everything on it is all set already as of today). Well, that simply concluded about how the problem itself that was initially occurred from (supposed to be) that one random app, until all the way to how I was able to fix it by resetting the entire 📱's operating system itself back to it's factory settings. 

As of today, it now works fairly 🆗 as if it was brand 🆕 from 6 years ago. Unfortunately though, according to the repairman who repaired this in his own service center, the entire old Android 9 operating system itself that is installed specifically on this 📱 will definitely obsolete roughly in the next year (or two). Because of this particular statement that he specifically said so to me, I don't think if I will decide to get a brand 🆕 Android 📱 with newer Android operating system(s) once this 📱 no longer support it's own old Android operating system soon (unless if he would able to install custom Android operating system on it [such as something like Lineage OS, CMIIW], but I highly doubt it)............ Only the time will tell about the actual truth particularly about this once it will happens soon.

my Android phone's battery suddenly did this... (and eventually...) 📱🔋

I thought my current Android smartphone that I purchased back in early of 2019 would last longer than my older Android devices before this one, it's because the batteries on those of my aforementioned older devices had seemingly crappy battery life... However, I encountered a problem where it's own battery itself suddenly had crappy battery life, yet it also indicated by how the whole device itself looked a bit crooked on one of the sides specifically on the back part of the said device itself. Well, it's time to find the actual truth about how come if it suddenly occurred particularly like so, until how I was able to troubleshoot the problem itself later on.📱🔋

Basically, I've been heavily using this particular daily driver for more than 5 years without any signs of issues whatsoever since I newly acquired it from then. Ranging from various stuffs from opening bunch of social media apps, editing pictures or videos on it, taking photos and videos, until all the way to playing some games on it, albeit it's obviously somewhat underwhelming nowadays compared to majority of those modern day Android phones that are available on market nowadays. When it comes to the battery life itself, they claimed if the battery itself originally would last for almost a day (or two), depending on which apps or games that I open, otherwise it would end up draining it faster if I keep doing it for too long.📱🔋

However, since roughly a year ago (or two), I realized if it's own battery itself suddenly went weaker overtime, specifically when I opened certain apps that usually drain it's own battery life quicker, which technically would do so as what I worried for... It also eventually made the matters itself even worse since around the beginning of this year, it's own battery life itself just went weaker than ever, which means it originally used to last for almost a day (or two), but then it only lasted for LESS than an hour (or even LESS than several minutes [depending on the usage of it]). I also realized when this occurred all the time, my entire device just heated up in such an unusual way, even if I mostly put the device itself on standby. It also made me shocked upon I checked the back part of it by opening the rubber case of the device itself, because one of the sides just suddenly went crooked! You know that means... My phone's battery just already inflated for real! Yep, even if it did so slightly, but that's the definite reason about how come if I felt a little bit uncomfortable every single time using it during this occurred. Moreover, I also worried if I keep recklessly using it in that exact state (including about how I charged it every single time, which I did it way more often during this occurred [yet it also sometimes wouldn't charge all the way up to 100%]), the non-removable battery itself would either explodes or erupts into smoke by all of the sudden if I still don't take a serious action with it yet.📱🔋

My phone's old faulty battery, notice for the year of it's production printed on it though...

Well then, after I decided to take the aforementioned serious action for real by replacing it's own old faulty battery with a new one, it now does last longer like what it originally used to be...... sort of. The phone repair technician revealed the actual truth about why my phone's old battery suddenly did that, it's because there was something shorted on it, therefore it caused all of those weird overheating and slight inflating behaviors during I used it in that state just earlier. Even though it also costed IDR 200.000 for replacing it in his service center, but it was really manageable for doing so anyway, as if it's still works just reasonably okay after all these years since I acquired the whole device itself from then... Just like what I clearly stated just earlier, depending on which apps or games that I open specifically on it, otherwise it'll drain it's own battery life faster if I keep recklessly doing it for too long. Oh, and one more thing, unlike most of those modern day Android smartphones that they currently sell these days which they claimed if they can charge any of those phone's batteries approximately within two hours (or even less, thanks to their original charging adapters), this one still charges it's own battery for at least 4 hours from anywhere near 0% to 100% (depending on what kind of aftermarket charging adapters that I use for charging it though, otherwise it will takes a while to do so for sure [it's because the original charging adapter that came with it was dead, which I also trashed it away as well]).📱🔋

If you have your own experience regarding to this exact situation with your own phones, please let me know particularly about it in the comments section if you're able to. Anyway, that's basically it for what I could say to this update article specifically about how come if my phone's battery suddenly does so, and pay attention when it comes to treating your own phones, especially when it's own battery life suddenly goes weaker overtime, or on worse scenario, it will end up becoming like that for sure.

i'm addicted to "braindead" social mobile apps, but...🤳

Before I explain about those social mobile apps that I classified them like so, you may ask me particularly about it, "Do you ever use certain (braindead) popular social apps, especially for those video sharing social medias that are exists these days?" Well, of course I recently do. Unfortunately, I'm addicted to certain of those "braindead" apps out there, especially for any kinds of video sharing social medias that are recently popular, which even beats up certain other social medias that were popular in it's days before these "braindead" apps existed (for this case, YouTube and certain Meta apps, respectively). Without further ado, I do spot two of the "braindead" video sharing social mobile apps that everybody around the world always use them both recently, specifically for everybody from our country. 📱

A. The two "braindead" social medias...🤳

1. TikTok

First off, of course TikTok is being one of them that I classified it as one of those "braindead" video sharing social medias that is recently popular these days. Not only the fact everybody from our country always use this "Tok" by uploading their prides in there (they usually upload certain short videos with remixed copyrighted music tracks), it also has certain other features that makes everybody just totally fascinated with this "Tok", being one of them is how it recently has it's own online marketplace, which also beats up any other online marketplace that are existed out there, thanks to it's own offering to buy any items from there for much cheaper price compared to what the other online marketplaces would offer in their respective platforms (including shipping, but it depends about which item that you will buy though).

As for how I'm particularly using it, I signed my main Google account in here, and uploaded whatever contents that I own in there for various purposes, ranging from archival purposes until all the way to pure fun purposes (because why not). Even if the views on there has less than 100K from all of my contents that I uploaded in there, but I was able to upload one of my videos in there that has more than 10K views! Although I did all of that effort by uploading them, that doesn't comparable by how it has a feature in order to invite friends to "earn money" from it, which I simply don't bother to do it for obvious reasons (if it presents though, because it rarely appears anyway). Lastly, for all kinds of contents that I search in there, I usually search certain contents that I usually seen them on any other social medias that I ever used just before. Even if I'm able to search them, it occasionally shows many of inaccurate results that doesn't match particularly with any of keywords that I exactly typed on it though.

For the online marketplace section that this "Tok" app offers, I ever purchased a random cheap item from it that costed IDR 18.000,-, including the shipping price (which was actually free shipping, fortunately). It has nothing to do with something related to both of my YouTube channels that I own, but I was able to purchase it for very first time on it using cash-on-delivery payment system. As for how I search any items that I want in there, it is somewhat accurate particularly with any of keywords that I exactly typed on it, unlike how I search majority of videos on it.

2. Snack Video

Another one of those "braindead" video sharing social medias that is recently popular these days, which is the Snack Video. This particular "yellow chocolate donut" app by Joyo CS (or it's internal name of the app itself also known as "Kwai Bulldog") also offers the same features almost in similar fashion like that "Tok" app that I mentioned just earlier. Unlike that "Tok" app, it has partially simpler features apart from watching any random contents (mainly videos) by any users out there, because this obviously doesn't have a built-in online marketplace like what that particular "Tok" app did. Instead, it has certain other features besides that one common practice that usually appears in one of these apps that I also explained just earlier. Those are the mini-games, watching ads to earn some coins for approximately 30 seconds in order to get some coins, and even a limited time "lottery" to win a latest iPhone (which is 99,9% highly unlikely to win it in there anyway).

As for how I'm particularly using it, for some reason I signed my other Google account in here instead of my main one, and uploaded whatever contents that I own in almost exact reasons just like what I did with that "Tok" app. As for the other features that this app offers, I even checked in for at least a month in order to get many coins as I can, thus it eventually converted into IDR currency in there every single day, albeit it only costed just IDR 4,- per 200 coins. Just like the "Tok" app, I usually search any kinds of contents that I usually seen them on my other social medias that I ever used, except I only search any of them specifically from our country, because if I tried to search anything outside from our country, it usually doesn't match with any of my keywords that I search on it.

B. Problems with any of these "braindead" apps...🤳

Even though if I recently installed both of those apps in my current phone, there are even more kinds of apps that I found particularly on Play Store, ranging from another one of those video sharing social media apps, games (mainly slot machine games and gambling games), survey apps, novel apps, and so on... Well, after I checked the reviews from each of the apps (or games) that shares this particular trait when it comes specifically about how to earn some money from any of them, several of the people said if either any of the apps or games BARELY withdraw money from any of them, even if they tried to withdraw them LESS than approximately IDR 50.000,- to (mostly) their popular e-wallet apps that they own. They also even said if the withdrawal process on most of the aforementioned apps or games also don't work at all, thus completely wasting their phone's data quota. 📱📶

As for how I ever dealt with one of those apps or games out there, unfortunately I ever installed one of those cheap games that they claimed if they were able to earn some money by simply playing it (for this case, I installed one of those crappy slot machine games). I played the game itself, and I even watch any random video ads in order to get some points, thus the points that I collected there were converted into IDR currency automatically by itself. Until the moment of truth where I tried to withdraw certain amount of money from it to one of my e-wallet apps that I installed particularly in my phone............ it simply didn't work. Seriously, it didn't even withdraw anything even if I put my correct phone number on it that is associated between the game and the aforementioned e-wallet app themselves. So that was it, I ended up uninstalling it off later on. 📱🎰➡❌💰

Another experience that I ever dealt on one of these kinds of apps or games like so (even though you probably ever experienced by one of these, even if I did on one of the two video sharing social apps that I mentioned just earlier), I had to do some sort of daily check-in tier system in one of those apps to get more points (which usually coins) for at least a month. After I successfully did the first phase of it for at least a month of me particularly doing so, suddenly the points of themselves were got lowered overtime, which makes it even harder to earn them entirely. This is possibly due to I didn't even invite any of my friends (or some people that I know out there) in order to use the exact kinds of apps that I used purposely for this to get even more points than just doing it all by myself, but I also felt suspicious if I already suspected if all kinds of process specifically like those were known as one of those popular schemes that most of the people would know when they're dealing with certain of those... It also makes the matters absurdly WORSE by the fact how most of the content creators on YouTube out there just dedicated for making their own tutorial videos of how to earn some money using ANY of those apps or games that they reviewed, which ironically resulting in how they got their own genuine YouTube revenue in their hands with ease thanks to their contents of themselves. On the other hand, it's also a polar opposite for most of the people who tried to use any of those apps or games that most of the said YouTubers taught at each of them per each of the people who tried to do so, which ended up wouldn't work as what they expected for. 📱🎞➡💵❓

Before I wrap up this article, something that is off-topic related to one of these apps (or even other types of apps out there), you may recognize if I mention ads on majority of those apps or games that I mentioned just before. Not just regular video ads, there are some sort of interactive ads that are present in any of them. Pretty sure if I ever explained this kind of topic on some of my other articles about annoying ads that I ever encountered, including the ones that I usually found from one of the mobile games that I usually play these days (of course I don't classify it as one of those "braindead" apps when it comes about how it has a feature to earn some money from it, but it BLATANTLY ISN'T; except it didn't present once I did an in-app purchase of something on it, which automatically removes any random ads from it)... Okay, back to those interactive ads that I was talking about. I always sick by any of those ads that mostly appeared alongside those of the video ads, and I'm concerned particularly about two types of them that bothered me the most. One of them is the popular mobile video game interactive ads, even if I was able to close it thanks to the "X" button that usually appears after few seconds of me WWP-ing (watching, waiting, and playing) it... Another one is the most annoying one that I ever dealt, which I'm spotting about how the F*** that one popular random online marketplace MASS SPAM their interactive ads, including by how they also added them on those kinds of apps (or games) sporadically like so. It also makes the matters worse if most of the ads that they advertise has NO access for closing it apart from the fact you can only ACCESS on the said marketplace itself! Grow up, that one online marketplace's developers and ad spreader m***********s! This is NOT YOUR way for making it way popular than any of those "braindead" apps or games that are existed out there! S*** 😡

Note: Excluding YouTube video ads from themselves (either you can or can't skip them), those ads from the aforementioned online marketplace also appears quite often on other kinds of apps or games that I installed. Even if their simple banner ads are commonly appear on them (which you can ignore them anyway, unless you just accidently tap one of those), but sometimes their dreaded interactive ads are also appears alongside with them, menacingly.

Well, there you have it for how I recently addicted with any of those "braindead" apps, yet majority of them are popular on mobile platforms. Actually, there are even more kinds of apps besides those two of the specific apps that I mentioned above (including games), yet several of them are also still available at the moment in either Android's Play Store or iOS's App Store. However, majority of them has downsides when it comes specifically about how to earn some money from each of those apps (or games). Yes, you can earn some money from any of them, but it is actually difficult as you expect, unless if you must do certain tasks in order to earn them with ease. Unfortunately though, most of them just don't seem to work as what they advertised, which resulting by how most of the people literally dealing with all kinds of technical difficulties from any of those apps (or games) in order to make it work, especially about how absurdly HARD they tried to withdraw some money from each of them, or on the worst cases, it BARELY doing so. Again, I felt suspicious if I already suspected if all kinds of process specifically like those were known as one of those popular schemes that most of the people would know when they're dealing with certain of those... With all of my suspects that I guessed from all of those "braindead" apps (and games), I can safely say that those are NOT definitely the best way to earn some money from them. Yes, you can entertain yourself with certain features in each of the apps (or games) out there, but they actually SUCK BALLS when it comes to earn some money from them, which doesn't even comparable to me waiting for my Adsense for at least approximately several months every turn (or even a year or more, particularly as for nowadays)... So, if you want to earn money quicker than those apps (or games), obviously get a real life job! Or, if you're creative enough yet you also have some sort of good potential from yourself, just become a YouTuber and upload whatever contents that do you want as long as it doesn't break all kinds of YouTube's guidelines. Well then, that's it from what I could say to the topic that I literally explained about those of the popular "braindead" apps (and games), which most of them do have their usual common practice where most of them do have that one feature where you can earn some money from them, which probably doesn't work like what they advertised. Thanks for reading this article, and pay full attention when it comes to dealing one of those apps (or games) out there.

Experience with my current Asus phone...📱

So, after a while since I use it as my current daily basis of me heavily using this particular device for roughly 4 years later, it's time to explain my summary of me using it in general since first time I acquired it until today. TBH, there's not much else that I could particularly say to this device as long as it does work just okay, apart from the fact it recently has some tiny problems while I'm particularly using it. Without further ado, let me explain about my overall summary of it either way.

1. General 📱

In case you've wondering of the brand and model of this particular device that I own since 2019, it is branded Asus, and the model name of this particular device is Zenfone Max Pro M1. I purchased it with the highest specifications as ever, which was the one with 6 GB of RAM and 64 GB of internal storage, costed around IDR 3.000.000,-... I purchased this because I decided to replace my previous phone of the same brand (Zenfone 5 that I purchased back in early of 2015), because that phone was sort of outdated for certain stuffs. Originally, I wanted the Asus Zenfone Max Pro M2 version, but it was sold out in every single of the cell phone stores particularly in my hometown, so I picked the M1 instead, yet it was literally the last stock ever in one of the cell phone stores where I purchased it from. It also benefits by how one of my fellow fan enthusiast told me if this one has somewhat better build quality compared to the M2's, by the way.

2. Specifications 📱

• Model : ZB602KL

• Color : Black (even if it's own back door is dark blue)

• OS : Android 8 (originally, but now it runs on Android 9)

• Screen size : 6"

• RAM : 6 GB

• Internal storage : 64 GB

• Processor : Qualcomm Snapdragon SDM 636 (1.8 GHz)

• Camera : 16 MP (back, dual camera) and 8 MP (front)

• MFD : September 2018

3. Results 📱

Unlike my old Zenfone 5, this phone does it's job as what I expected for all kinds of stuffs that I want for it. When it comes specifically about how I open certain apps that has an interaction to connect it to the internet on each of them, it takes much less seconds to open them either way compared to my old one (results may vary on each of the apps, including online games). Not only just those, there are few moments about me having fun with it's own features that it has, so here are my results particularly about them, right away:

• First off, the quality of the camera is fairly better than my old Asus, due to the fact it has two of them on the back. Even if it's better, it has it's own weaknesses where it sometimes produces noisy pictures and videos, and it also sucks when it comes to capturing or recording everything in certain places with less lighting, which causing me force to turn on the flash every single time, which still doesn't help to make it look less noisy. As for the front camera, it's pretty much bog-standard quality without any ability to manually focus on everything, even if it does have a flash on it though. 📸
• Playing games on this phone is slightly better than my old Asus too, including heavier games that normally wouldn't work that well on that said old phone and even my previous Android devices before that one. Albeit if it's mildly laggy and does crash sometimes on each of them, at least it does work just 🆗, compared to what I've done specifically with those old Android devices that I used to have, which kept lagged and crashed like crazy due to poor specifications that they had. 🎮
• Opening certain editor apps (mainly for photo and video editor apps), they do work just okay for all kinds of editing that I want to, even if it looks and sounds somewhat awkward to me particularly in general. 🖼🎞
• Unlike any of my previous Android devices before this one, it has built-in stereo speakers. Even if it still doesn't sound all that good, it does have a headphone jack to plug either earphones, headphones or speakers. 🔊🎧
• The battery of this phone makes a huge difference compared to any of my previous Android devices before this one. While those only lasted for at least around 30 minutes that caused any of them would suddenly shut down by itself regardless of their condition of themselves while they're operating, this one lasts for least a day without shutting down by itself. Well, unless I open certain apps that drains it's own battery life quicker than it should. 🔋

After I used it for roughly 4 years since I purchased it in particular, I encountered some tiny problems while I'm using it. So, here are the said problems that sometimes appear on it, right away:

• It occasionally cuts out the Wi-Fi connection every single time, especially by how I connect it to certain Wi-Fi access points that has excellent speeds (especially for at least ~10 Mbps or more), although it does able to reconnect it back immediately. I have no clue if this particular problem also existed on my older Android devices before this one. For this case, it recently causes one of the background apps that associated with it just crashes when this happens, sometimes. 📶
• Even if it's unrelated to the phone itself, it recently has a weird error where it sometimes "deliberately" refused to install or update any of the apps that I installed on it from Google Play Store while it's processing. When this happens, I have to delete the Play Store's cache and storage through Settings app, if it works though.
• A tiny bug occurring every single time when I update Google Contact app on this phone from Google Play Store, either manually by myself or automatically by itself. When this happens, one of the options in Developer Options just resets by itself once it's finished updating it (for this case, it's the duration of the animation of the whole UI itself).⚙
• It sometimes has a problem where I stored any files to my old 32 GB microSD card that I equipped on it. In most cases, mainly for pictures and videos, the thumbnails of themselves sometimes won't show up, even if I open any of them most of the time I move or copy any of them from certain devices to the said microSD card that I put on this phone. When it occurs, I have to reboot it to make them show up like what it should be. Again, even though this is sort of unrelated to the phone itself, but it sometimes doing so when it comes to transferring my files in such method specifically like so. 

4. Conclusion 📱

This phone is literally my direct upgrade to my previous phone of the same brand, which was Asus Zenfone 5 that I purchased back in 2015. With it's own decent specifications that it has compared to my old one, I can do anything that I want for daily basis exactly like what I expected with it's own features that it has, thanks to it's own specifications that it specifically has... Even though this phone has certain special features specifically like so, of course it leads to some tiny problems while I'm using it after all these years of me heavily using it. Just like my previous Android devices that I used to have, this particular device does have the aforementioned problems that always bothers me to fix them in their such ways per each of them, although it is way less quantity to those on my older Android devices that were well-known for doing so frequently than this; one of them being notorious by how they crashed the apps by all of the sudden that made me enraged. For this case, it does crash some apps or games that I installed on this particular phone if I made something wrong with any of them, but the occurrences by how it doing so is much rare (so that means it's a good sign if this phone does perform better than those, right?).

Just out of context, but this is me testing a Plants vs. Zombies Heroes 🎮 on this particular 📱, taken in 2019...

🆗, enough by how I suddenly explain about that one notorious problem that commonly occurs in every single Android devices, including this phone that I'm using right now... Back to the device itself. Again, there's nothing else that I could particularly say to this as long as it does work just 🆗, even if it does have those of the said tiny problems that it has after all these years of me heavily using it. As for the future plan with it, I feel like I want to upgrade it with much better specifications than that even if it does work just like what I expected for daily basis compared to my older Android devices just before this one, but I don't think if I can do it way sooner due to the fact how broke I am these days, yet I also have no clue about which one that I will get soon..... Only the actual time will reveal the truth specifically about it, but hey, as long as I don't get one of those dodgy Chinese unbranded fake Android dummy phones that they usually boasts crazy flagship specifications for much affordable price (and they're also knockoff from popular brands that always fool every people out there in every single online marketplace), but it turns out if the specifications of themselves are just complete rotten potato which basically performs way worse than my very first Android phone that I ever used (my original Samsung Galaxy Y that I purchased back in 2011).🥔

Plants vs. Zombies 2: Results on my current device (or UPDATED Mark II)

Well, it's been a while if I didn't make my latest update of me playing the whole Plants vs. Zombies 2 on my particular device that I have right now (which is my smartphone with 6 GB of RAM) that I still own it since early of 2019 until today. With all of it's features that they recently added in the whole game (such as even more Arena PvP events, Penny's Pursuit [as of early 2020 until today], and more additional features that they also added on them too), so it's time to take another results about how well my current device will play this game with all of it's own features that they recently added in the whole game.

Before I list all of those latest results, there's nothing particularly fancy that I could say about it apart from those game modes that they recently added in the whole game, yet I only mentioned just one device where I play this game as well, unlike my previous posts of the same topic that also mentioned my previous two devices that I used to play it on them both... So, without further ado, let's take a brief look at these latest results about them right away:

• In general, it does play all of the game modes just okay, unless there are certain issues that causes it to lag very badly (such as too many zombies [especially in Endless Zones, which I rarely play it], certain plants that using their Plant Food ability on their Power Tiles that causes it to do so, and certain other actions that causes it to do that too).
• Even though it does play it fine, the game sometimes does crash if there are something suddenly wrong with it. It indicates by if the game suddenly stuck by itself entirely, then few seconds later, it crashes yet there is no message if the game itself just stopped working. It also sometimes crashes by itself when I tried to load any game modes, then it suddenly kicks out to the home screen right off the bat... Again, it's still better than playing this game on my previous two Android devices that I used to play it, which were way worse compared to this one.
• Usual buggers that appears on this game (or almost any apps that I downloaded from Play Store), which are those wild annoying ads that SHOULDN'T appear in anywhere else on the whole game, apart from few options that needs to watch any video ads in order to complete certain actions upon watching them (such as getting just a single seed packet of a plant, rent a plant, and so on), excluding those built-in ads by themselves, which aren't too bad unlike those ones there... I have to exit the whole game entirely if either any of those annoying ads appear, then I relaunch it back... Only if my internet access is good enough.

For the bonus related to this topic that I made here, here are my latest moments of this game, being one of them was an unfortunate accident that occurred due to I accidently deleted it's own kernel files, but I was able to retrieve it back later on without any issues.

• First off, an immense lag just occurred from one of the latest plant that they released, which was this one. It caused the game to run very slow than it should be, yet it ran pretty much like playing this game on my previous two Android devices that I used to play it on them both.
• Then, an unfortunate accident occurred on me during I tried to delete duplicated files through Google Files. I also accidently deleted some of the whole game's kernel files that caused the game itself got reset from the zero... Well, after several tries in order to retrieve it back, I did able to do it by itself, yet the game itself just also "hoarded" a LOT of coins, gems, mints, and even gauntlets (albeit it's not that many, unlike coins and gems). Again, although I did able to do so, it also hoarded a lot of those fresh accounts besides my main ones that I have there too (especially for the ones that nicknamed just "User Dave" and it's duplicates), so I had to delete them all, except for my main account one that I keep there for very obvious reasons.

Well, there you have it for my latest results of me playing Plants vs. Zombies 2 on my particular device that I'm using these days. Again, there's nothing fancy about it apart from the fact I only play it just on the one and the only device that I'm using right now (which still works just okay, unlike my previous devices which didn't work that well), yet the game itself just added even more of the game modes too. I think that's pretty much it from what I could say to this because I already lose my sentences about what kind of sentences that I would say next these days, and thanks for reading this particular post.

Archive: Worst experience with a cheapo, crappy "smart" watch...

This time, I will explain about something that was really bad exactly like what this person showed clearly in this particular video about the device itself, despite it was clearly a scam that pretended to be the real deal of it... Speaking about that cheapo device that he "reviewed" there, I also used to have one of those too, but it was under a different shape yet it also had the exact same cheap operating system as well like that one that he clearly showed there. Without further ado about it, let me take a look of my story about it, yet how I completely gave up using it anymore.

1. First glance of it...

Back in somewhere in 2018, my mom just told me about the "smart" watch itself that I planned to buy it online. At first glance, I thought I was like, "Oh... I can't wait to get an Android Wear for such a cheap price!" or some sentences that sounded quite similarly like that. So, I decided to buy it for roughly few bucks for it from a somewhere else online (which wasn't from any legit local online marketplace whatsoever). I waited it for probably 2 weeks for shipping for it, until I got a mail from a courier that contained the "smart" watch itself. So, I decided to open it straight away, until some sudden disappointment about it just hit really hard on my face during upon I unboxed the mail that contained the box of it.

2. Appearance

By the look of it, it was exactly what I suddenly disappointed into, which the box itself looked so cheap and bashed, until I decided to open it to reveal even more sudden disappointments of the device itself that I bought. It contained the "smart" watch itself, short microUSB cable, and instructions that was written in both Chinese and broken English... Yep, my disappointment about it was getting worse upon I turned it on (even when it only showed the battery icon during it's charging), but of course I had to charge it for at least 5 minutes for very first time to gave it some juice for it (if I guessed that statement right).

Anyway, back to the thing itself. It felt exactly similar to that guy who reviewed there, cheap and nasty crap, and both of it's own straps were also felt quite cheap too, but it did it's job just okay. Even though the one that I got had different shape, but it was basically the same thing like what he reviewed on that video there as well.

3. Usage and results

First off, you probably think if that thing would work exactly like what he reviewed there, but NO! It performed way worse as you may expect. Sometimes if I accidently drop it (but not too high), or I accidently tap it quite hard (but not too hard), it just simply shuts the thing itself off. It occurred just almost every single time if I did either the former or the latter, it kept shutting the thing itself off for unknown reasons. Maybe because the thing itself wasn't supposed to be shock-proof? Or device was naturally defective from the factory? Probably the latter, to be honest.

For the cheap operating system itself, of course I always felt annoying by that tune every time I turned it on or off, but I did able to disable it though settings that leaded to it, so. For the rest of the "apps" and functions of the watch itself, here are the results about them:

• First off, the key function about it was obviously the clock itself. It did work just okay as it was, but of course if I removed it's own battery then I put it back in, it kept resetting it's own date and time in very early of 2017.
• I didn't bother to send messages through it because not only the fact it was kind of obsolete in general these days, it was PAINFULLY difficult to type texts on that tiny touchscreen. That also occurred during I tried to do certain other things that involved typing texts on it too.
• Using it as a remote Bluetooth media player through an app from my smartphone's app just worked decently. Even though it's own tiny speakers didn't sound that great, it did it's job just reasonably so.
• Unlike the "smart" watch that he reviewed in that particular video, it had a built-in camera. The quality of the pictures that were taken by it was potato as you expect, yet slightly lower quality than that Nokia phone that my mom used to have in around 2006 to 2007.
• Using it as a remote camera also worked just okay, yet also using the same app that functions it as a remote Bluetooth media player for it.

Even though it had those features, it also had another flaws besides that one major flaw that I mentioned earlier. So, here are some flaws for it:

• Even though it had a camera, it didn't had a feature to record a video. Probably because the system itself was way too poor to implement it (unlike those old typical Chinese phones [e.g. my old D-ONE]), but I obviously don't know.
• No default wallpaper on it's own watch face home screen, just plain pitch black.
• It obviously didn't support any pictures or images that had larger file sizes. That also applied to the certain music files and their certain file formats of the same size traits too.
• Some dud (false option) apps like Facebook, Twitter, and even Whatsapp that were present on it. I tried to open any of them, but none of them would do so.
• No Wi-Fi, just some obsolete GPRS and WAP connections.
• No headphone jack.

4. Final times with it...

With all of it's own features and flaws that it had, it did it's job just okay for certain things, such as remote Bluetooth media player (albeit it's own speakers sounded so tiny), pedometer (which I didn't think if that actually worked), and some other basic stuffs that I could do with it. Until at the end of the day with it, I was having a bad day about why that thing always malfunctioning like so, yet that made it even better because one of it's own straps broke off... During that time I decided to end it's life because how obviously crap it was, I was really mad about how it kept malfunctioning again and again, especially for that one major flaw where it still kept shutting the thing itself off by any certain hits to it, even with one of it's own straps broke off. Well, because of that still existed, I decided to do it even harder by simply drowning it into the saltwater first, but of course I had to rescue the SIM card (if I ever used it to send SMS or other communication stuffs that involved it, otherwise it was so painfully pointless) and the 2 GB microSD card that I used for it, so... After I drowned into the saltwater, the screen suddenly went all white, but for some reason, it didn't shut off if I dropped it or tapped it hard. It also made the thing itself felt a bit warm too during that occurred... Then, I hit the screen really hard until the protective glass got shattered, yet the crappy LCD itself also broken too, even though I obviously couldn't see anything from it anymore because it was shorted with the screen still went white... Finally, I finished the rest of it off by smashing the whole thing into a lot of small pieces yet I burned it too. And that was it, even though I rescued some of what's left from the "stupid" watch itself, I actually kept it's own battery for some reason until it got swollen by itself, which I ended up "hauling" it off later on.

Well, there you have it for my experience with that cheapo "stupid" watch. Exactly what the title of this post says, this was obviously the worst experience of using it, not only the fact it's way too obsolete, it also because it was utterly painful for using it as a sub-daily driver device... This was also definitely the scam almost similarly like what he discovered in that particular there (but under different reason), because I thought it was some sort of cheap Android Wear watch that looked quite unique, but it turned out that was one of those cheapo generic "smart" watch with their own cheap operating systems that they embedded them into that, which didn't work that well... I think that's pretty much it from what I could say to that cheapo crap that I already got rid of, and hope you can pay full attention about what I experienced with that, or even other cheap techs that you may feel often disappointing with any of them, so.

Annoying ads in PVZ 2... in my 📱......🎮

As what I clearly stated in my previous post, entitled "Annoying video ads" earlier, so it's time to explain this topic again as a follow-up, but specifically for one of the games that I still play from roughly 7 years ago until today, which is the Plants vs. Zombies 2. I know if almost any of the modern mobile video games do have some ads in there, but I do spot most of the annoying ones that makes me feel cringe about why they always appear like that, menacingly. There's nothing else that I can say about this anyway, apart from the way how I explain about it is pretty much similar to what I explained in my previous aforementioned post of them in general. Just like that aforementioned main post of them that I made earlier, I divided them into 3 levels of how annoying they are, ranging from average, annoying, and most importantly, very annoying one... I also include certain types of the ads that are just simple texts, pictures, and simple animations in this one too, yet I also tell about when those ads usually appear in that particular game that I play it as well.

Before that, I'm gonna tell you about when those ads will appear in the whole game itself, so let me explain about it first, then I'll show what kind of ads that usually appears in the entire game itself too.

1. The way how they appears...🎮

While I'm playing the game itself, they usually appear in certain patterns in the entire game, for example:

• Win a level in Adventure Mode of the game (or losing it),
• Win a daily Pinata Party events (or losing it),
• Opening a store (or closing it, which is somehow rarely seen them),
• Win every single of Penny Pursuit's events (or losing it),
• Win (or losing) a PvP match in Arena (previously known as Battlez), and
• Win every single of Epic Quest steps (or losing it)

2. Levels...🎮

Again, I divided them into 3 levels of how annoying they are, ranging from average, annoying, and most importantly, very annoying one. So, here are 3 levels of them about how annoying they are, as the way how they usually appear in this entire game:

a. Average 👌

Just bunch of ads that I can simply close right when they appear. Either just plain texts, simple pictures, or even simple animations. Even though there are built-in ads from the game itself (such as leveling up plants, featured premium plants, simple guides, etc.), but overall, it's not really that bad... Unless I accidently tap on the ad itself instead of closing it straight away.

b. Annoying 😠

Like what I explained to the main post of those annoying ads before, right on the "Modern Video Games" section, there are some variants of the ads that I refer them as the annoying one. Majority of them are interactive video ads that I can close them for at least 5 seconds or more. There are some of the variants of the same type of the ads that I can simply close them using the back button... if that works though. FYI, certain of the third-party advertisers (such as Vungle, Iron Source) that advertises those random ads do count as this one, as if I can close them for at least 5 seconds or more.

c. Very Annoying 😡

Yes, and of course I do encounter some variants of those ads that I refer them as the most annoying one that I ever encountered so far.  So far (specifically for this game in particular), I found at least 2 types of ads that I refer them as it, because let's face it... those ads are really stubborn to get rid of, or other else that makes me feel angry about why those very annoying ads always appear like, "Tap me! Tap me!"... So, here are 2 types of very annoying ads that I encountered them in this game:

1. Interactive video ads that I CAN'T close it at all. This is one of the common ads that always appears in this game in general, yet one of it's variants are advertised by a third-party advertiser known as Ad Colony (if I guessed that right)... Although I can simply get rid of any of those ads by simply press the home button in order to exit the game with any of them, they will always come back with a vengeance for sure, especially when I tried to close any of them, I always tap the ad itself that leads to the aforementioned site (or online shop's promo) that they advertised. F***!!!😡
2. Some of the Annoying level ads that will (or may) crash the whole game... Yes! Even though those ads themselves (mainly video ads) aren't look that bad in the first glance, but after I close them, they will crash the whole game. This problem commonly occurred in 2 of my old Android devices that I used to have, yet the majority of the ads that crashed the game were obviously video ads for sure (if I mentioned 2 of those aforementioned Android devices right, due to one of them performed so horribly, yet it kept crashed the whole game even there were no ads for that). Meanwhile, for my current Android smartphone that I'm using right now, I've seen them less than before, although I still feel bummed about why those following ads are able to do so... Contains malware or something "sus" to crash the whole game? I don't even know.

Well, there you have it for short summary of the ads that always appears specifically in Plants vs. Zombies 2. Once again, every single of the modern video games (including this game) do have ads that always appear no matter when they will do so, ranging from average ones, all the way into the most annoying one that you may deal or get rid of it by the way... I think that's pretty much it for this post of the same topic of it that I made earlier, but I made it again specifically for one of the games that I usually play from few years ago until today. As usual, thanks for reading this post, and hope you can pay the attention about this follow-up post too.

Annoying video ads... (🇮🇩)

Yes... Ads...... Every time I do certain online things (such as watching YouTube videos, visiting some websites, playing online games, etc.), those random ads always appears. For example, a (or few) random item(s) being listed at an online shop, popular apps, some sort of online jobs, and so on. But, I'm not gonna explain about those basic ones like the ones that are just texts, pictures or simple animations, so I'm gonna explain about those annoying video ads that always appears in majority of the online stuffs that I ever seen so far from the past until today... I did encounter every single of the random video ads in almost any sites, apps or games that I ever played from then until now, but I did spot few of them that are (or were) so annoying, because it always appears so often, yet I can't fix it by personalizing the ads as well. Without further ado, here are lists about video ads ranging from the average ones, till to the most annoying ones that I encountered.

I'll divide into 3 different categories for this topic, one which is for YouTube, the other one is for the ones that usually appears in any of my modern video games that I installed on my devices, and the rest are for the other sites that has any of those.

A. YouTube

Of course YouTube do have a lot of video ads that always appears at almost any of the monetized videos in every single of them that I watched since from a long time ago, unless I'm using an ad blocker to prevent it... Anyway, here are my lists of those video ads that commonly appears on YouTube, divided into 3 levels about how I react to them:

a. Average

Example of a random video ad that I watched on YouTube, yet I categorized as the average ones... Just a video ad of that Panasonic mini-split air conditioner, which was so relatable to my main YouTube channel that made me felt pity to skip it anyway...

Only encountered few of them so far, which are just some video ads that is related to my main YouTube channel that made me didn't skip them due to they're so relatable to both of my YouTube channels that I own (such as air conditioner ads, HVLS ceiling fan ad, etc.). Moreover, I did encounter them during I didn't sign in on either one of my Google accounts... Or did I (from what I remembered).

b. Annoying

There are plenty of the video ads that I encountered them on YouTube that I categorized them as the annoying one. Here are my examples of them:

• Video ads of popular mobile games that are skippable (such as Rise of Kingdoms, Lords Mobile, Genshin Impact, Ragnarok, etc.). These are the most common video ads that appears randomly every time while I'm watching any videos on YouTube,

• Video ads of cheap mobile games that are also skippable (such as Playrix games [Homescapes, Gardenscapes, etc.], and some unrecognizable ones too),

• Certain video ads of popular apps on Google Play that are skippable (e.g.: popular online shops, trading apps [which my country's government just sued most of them though], and other usual apps that are also popular nowadays), 

• Certain long video ads that are skippable (for example, a short movie ad that has 2 minutes of video length).

c. Very Annoying

Well, here is my most annoying one that I found them on YouTube. So, here is my dreadful list of those video ads that I hate the most on YouTube:

• 5-second ads that ALWAYS appears way too often. Majority of them that appears are the ones that are based on those popular apps on Google Play (TikTok and SnackVideo are the ones that are appears way too often, as of today), followed by certain super apps that also popular in my country too...

• Some video ads that I obviously CAN'T skip, yet they're based on the ones that commonly appears on TV's commercial breaks. Usually comes with either 15 second video ad durations or their shortest one, 5 second ones. While I visit on any following video ads that randomly appear, it directly opens to certain things, such as the following items that they sell on online shops exactly like what they advertised, or other things like some sort of giveaway (but it's rarely seen).

B. Modern Video Games

Any of my modern video games that I ever installed and played, either on both my phone (most commonly) or even my laptop (which is barely seen any, because I never encountered any of them on it), I also encountered bunch of video ads as well... Just like what I mentioned on YouTube earlier, here are my lists of those video ads that commonly appears on my modern video games that I installed them on my devices, divided into 3 levels about how I react to them:

a. Average

Unlike YouTube, there are (or were) none of them... Simple as that.

b. Annoying

I did encounter bunch of annoying video ads on the mobile games. For example, majority of video ads like what they advertised on YouTube, except they associated them with Facebook. There are some other interactive type video ads that being associated by certain third-party domains as well (such as Iron Source or Vungle Privacy). Well, at least I can close them due to all of those video ads do have their own close button for at least 5 seconds after those ads appeared, although at most cases, I always tap the ad itself instead of closing it right away which is annoying! (sigh)

c. Very Annoying

Oh, lord... Of course there are some video ad variants that are so ANNOYING as heck! Just like YouTube with all of those video ads of the same level of very annoying they are; those makes me want to force close the whole YouTube app in order to get rid of them! For example, there is one variant of a video ad that I completely CAN'T close. No matter how it suddenly pops up like that on my phone's screen, there's absolute NO way to close it after 5 seconds or anything like that... Just like those ads on YouTube that I absolutely CAN'T skip (or I must deal with them anyway), I have to force close the whole game, then I re-open it again... Or, if I can play the game without this variant of the video ad, I just simply disable any internet connections, either from Wi-Fi or data connection.

That also counts for certain video ads that also appears (even though I can close them after at least 5 seconds at most cases), but it ended up just crash the whole game by itself! F***! It was commonly occurred on my previous Android devices that I used to own, yet also happens but lesser occurrence in my current Android smartphone that I have right now.

C. Other sites

For the other sites, I also encountered some of the annoying video ads that also appears in anywhere else. For example, if I didn't have the ad blocker on my browser during I opened the Fandom, there are few of video ads that caused me surprised by all of the sudden... During I explored through them, I suddenly heard a music or voices from those particular video ads that annoyed me at random times. There were no way to get rid of any of them though, apart from the ad blocker to prevent it to happen... For any of the random sites besides YouTube and those popular social medias, it's quite rare to encounter those annoying ads at almost any sites, so it's pretty average to encounter any of those though. Although there are few certain sites that I must disable the ad blocker on my browser for certain reasons, that doesn't affect about this anyway since I barely seen any of those annoying video ads anyway.

So, in conclusion... There are plenty of annoying video ads that appears in almost every single website that I visited them since from a long time ago. Ranging from not-so-bad ones which are passable, until to the most annoying ones that makes (or made) me feel so cringe against them. Again, there's no way to prevent any of the ads that appears in almost any websites (including YouTube), because that's how every single of the advertisers wants to do that for obvious marketing reasons per each of the websites. I mean, simple ads like just texts, pictures, or even simple animations are fine, but the video ads are the ones that I have to totally deal against, especially for the most annoying ones that I can't (or couldn't) even skip or close with ease, no matter what kind of those video ads are... IMO, majority of them are occurred on my mobile devices, so that's why there are many of those video ads that appears quite a lot compared to the simple ones. For the other platforms like for my laptop(s), as long as the ad blocker extension is present in any of the browsers that I have, it's all fine, although I must disable it in most of the websites though for certain reasons... No matter how I like or hate them with a passion, those video ads are always appears very often until today (especially for the ones that I can't skip or close them immediately or after 5 seconds). Anyway, that's it for the post that explains about some annoying video ads that appears in every single of the websites that I ever visited from a long time ago until today, and hopefully you can pay attention about this post by the way, if you can deal or get rid any of those though.