I sat down with a stopwatch today while playing this game, and discovered that a random ad plays once every minute and thirty seconds. These ads take about twenty seconds to skip the two screens necessary to get back to the game, which means that even if you ignore the constant prompts to play an ad to triple your offline earnings, double your crane speed, obtain missing materials, spin the wheel, etc, you’ll still be spending almost 20% of the time this game is open watching an ad. It’s really a shame, because the cycle of upgrade equipment/scrap cars/earn money is extremely satisfying, but the actual experience of playing this game is so thoroughly frustrating due to constant ads that I’ll be deleting ScrapyardTycoonIdleGame . If it weren’t for this problem, I would be happy to choose to watch ads for tangible benefits in the game, in fact would be very likely to do so, except for the fact that as soon as that ad is done, another is going to play right behind it for nothing. The ad strategy of this game is ridiculous, inexcusable, and predatory, and exposes the fact that this developer has fallen under the same spell as nearly every other mobile app developer - that of raking in all the short-term profits of excessive ads they force on their customers until the customer gets fed up and deletes the game instead of attempting to create a fun and rewarding experience for their players. Shame on them.