Does Google Inserting Deceptively Placed Ads in the Play Store seem icky to anyone else?
Does Google Inserting Deceptively Placed Ads in the Play Store seem icky to anyone else?
They've started inserting a subtle ad as the first result instead of the actual app you're searching for.
This has to have been a change over the last month or two I feel like?
I'm having to reprogram myself to view the first result as irrelevant. Really makes me want to increase the F-Droid alternatives that I use.
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Play Store doing this since September, at least in my region (SE Asia). If you disabled personalized ads on your Google Account, Play Store homepage displays ads that are frequently installed from your country/state.
Play Store homepage displays ads that are frequently installed from your country/state.
Speedrun to get spyware.
Indeed. Most apps I got on the homepage, mostly fast cash lending apps, were developed from China, and then outsourced its customer-based services to my country.