{"id":3157,"date":"2011-01-19T16:06:22","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T21:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=3157"},"modified":"2011-01-19T16:06:22","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T21:06:22","slug":"angry-birds-without-ads-coming-in-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2011\/01\/19\/angry-birds-without-ads-coming-in-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Angry Birds Without Ads Coming In 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A month ago I <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2010\/12\/17\/video-ads-in-angry-birds-on-android\/\">posted about my frustrations with video ads in Angry Birds on Android<\/a> and how there was no pay option. At the same time I emailed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rovio.com\/\">Rovio<\/a> to inform them of my frustration with the video ads and asked when a for-pay version of their software may be available. A couple days ago I received the following response from Rovio informing me that an option to pay and opt out of ads will become available later this year:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><cite>Hello Steve,<\/cite><\/p>\n<p><cite>and thanksd for contacting us.<\/cite><\/p>\n<p><cite>Sorry hear you decided to uninstall the game. <\/cite><\/p>\n<p><cite>A payment option to opt out of the ads will be introduced worldwide this year.<\/cite><\/p>\n<p><cite>Best Regards,<\/cite><\/p>\n<p><cite>Oona Hilkamo<\/cite><br \/>\n<cite>Angry Birds Community Champ<\/cite><br \/>\n<cite>Rovio Mobile Ltd.<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m anxiously looking forward to this because I do enjoy playing Angry Birds, but I simply do not want to support the software&#8217;s authors by viewing commercials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A month ago I posted about my frustrations with video ads in Angry Birds on Android and how there was no pay option. At the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2011\/01\/19\/angry-birds-without-ads-coming-in-2011\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Angry Birds Without Ads Coming In 2011<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-electronics","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3157"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3160,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3157\/revisions\/3160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}