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How Block Blast harvests its players for ad money

23 points • by motionlessveloc • today at 2:43 AM • 3 comments • view on HN

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Jaxkr • today at 6:15 AM

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 • today at 5:57 AM

> 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.

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