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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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Probably easier to tell if there were images. Why are they missing

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yes it is gross, it Apple does the same thing in their app store. So it is nothing that can be avoided with using the major players.

[–] shym3q 4 points 1 year ago

Aurora Store works like a charm without ads or tracking.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I don't mind it so much as it makes it hard to find the actual application I'm looking for most of the time. Your case here is a perfect example of this.

Google has done crappy "suggested results" for so many years now that I automatically ignore the top results from any Google search, so all this does is make it harder to find things :-(

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

... and they've removed all images from the site too 🙈

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Isn't that normal?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I mean, it's literally a store, this is not a space where you'll be free from ads.

I'm going with--not in the top 10 of terrible things Google is doing lately.

But sure, ok, it sucks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Always have been

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (5 children)

It clearly says sponsored, so not really no.

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