The ads are making the game not fun anymore :/

maybe it's just me, but I can't enjoy the game anymore because of the ads. I open up the game. Click something maybe two times, get an ad. Go to the station. Click the market and buy my stuff. Ready to go? No. Ad pops up. It's very disruptive to the flow of the game. I play many mobile games with these kind of pop-up ads on them and they don't bother me, but I don't think this ad style suits Tiny Rails very well.

tiny rails to me has been a very soothing and relaxing game. It's not one that I get super into and get all intense, and will pick it back up in 30 seconds to play again just to keep going. And when I'm opening it up just to check my gold for the day or see if I've arrived at a station, and an ad pops up? I just close out of the game and go do something else.

it doesn't help that I'm hit with an ad almost as soon as I open the game. If an ad is the first thing I see when I start the game, how can I get into the game? How can I start planning a mission or a pickup run or whatever? I haven't even been able to check out the new content because... I just end up putting the game down because of the ads.

I do understand completely that developing a game is not free and that tiny rails needs to make money to pay for itself. But I wish they could find a better way than the style of ad. What was wrong with the choosing to click to watch an ad to get extra gold? I like tiny rails enough I would even pay for premium version that didn't have these ads.

how is everyone else's experience of the ads?