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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I've always been amazed by how unusable the play store was. I'd actually like to browse apps sometimes, but it always was choke full of useless ads pushing the worst apps possible. I only go there once every blue moon when I exactly know what I want, download it and get out of there.
Same. It's actually impressive how bad the play store has gotten in last 12 years as per my experience.
I'll just point out this isn't only an Android issue.
If there any IT person here who has had to direct an employee to download the Microsoft authenticator app from the iPhone App Store, you've almost certainly seen that it promotes a deceptively similar looking authenticator above the Microsoft one, and you have to make sure the user knows not to download it.
I work IT and I hate having to help people with that. I usually bring up a pic of the app's icon so they can compare it.