Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-25660508-20141224075246/@comment-26715739-20151125114736

Location - at least country - matters a lot. I got a very different number of ads between Spain and the UK (and previously Australia, Belgium and Sweden).

This is not surprising as, at the very least ads are targeted to language, and some apps (by their very nature) will be locked to particular geographies (eg medical/doctor, dry cleaning or dating apps, and I have seen ads for all of these).

The ads themselves also differ between countries - although I've still had English language ads in Spain, Sweden, Belgium (as well as Spanish, Swedish and French, and Dutch/Flemish as well as a random one in -probably- Mandarin).

We've had someone report that they get lots of ads in Switzerland (50+ a day back when you used to be lucky to get 5 in the UK), but not when they travel elsewhere.

OS is clearly a factor (although it appears to be less of a factor in Australia based on the comments this morning from Elpreciado).

From what I've seen device type ie phone/tablet (or possibly OS version) also appears to be a factor.

I have never spent any money on the game. I have never followed an ad link. I have installed apps from the free gold section (and uninstalled immediately thereafter, once I'm satisfied that I've got the payout, or won't get it, in fact I think I've managed to double-dip a couple of times). I use a fairly throwaway gmail account that shouldn't have anything particularly identifiable with it (although in the past couple of months it has been used for a few other "throwaway" things - so maybe those add up).

And I get quite a lot of ads - so suggestions that they reward "payers" don't apply to me.