My daughter likes to play some kid/toddler games on our Android tablet. I have banned ads from our home. Anyone who's tried to find games on Android will know that 99% of the free games (and even some for-pay games) have ad quantities that would put the worst of network TV to shame. And the ads are often very inappropriate. Plus, her attention span for these games is the size of a grain of sand, so we needed a faster way to find and cycle through games. So we used the excellent "App Finder" app (which I highly recommend) on the play store which did an ok job when you click the "no ads" button. This works ok, but we started getting down to just the for-pay games. And paying $1-$5 a game for the pay games doesn't sound too bad, except 90% of them she'll play once for 2 minutes and then never play again, making the purchase a waste. (There's no way to know whether a game will not interest her without paying & playing!) So we're giving the google Play Pass subscription service a try, mostly because we can try basically every for-pay play-pass game for free and throw the bad ones away with no remorse, AND it promises NO ADS. Like NO ADS EVER on badged play-pass games. Ya, so my son chose 3 promising play-pass games at random and all 3 of them instantly had ads galore. Basically nothing changed. So those instantly got uninstalled... I verified that I am indeed looking at "Play Pass Badged" games, that say "Play Pass" and have the icon, and are in the Play Pass-only section of the Play Store. I'm wondering if anyone else has play pass and can verify if all or some of their games did or did not have ads. Maybe there's something broken on the tablet, especially because it's in "supervised" (child) mode which seems to make things a disaster. (Google really hasn't tested all use / family scenarios.) Maybe I have to jump through some extra hoops somewhere? I can't believe that this is google's actual flagship mobile software product they are pushing. I'm not going to pay for it if I'm back to square one having to vet 9 games to find 1 that for realz doesn't contain ads. I'm buying it for the sole purpose of saving time. (P.S. It's $35 a year with an automatic 1 month free trial -- I have 30 days to cancel if I can't sort this out. P.P.S. You can apply the pass to every device in your "family group" so that's a bonus.) _______________________________________________ Roundtable mailing list -- roundtable@muug.ca To unsubscribe send an email to roundtable-leave@muug.ca