Ads upon ads upon ads
This is the exact same thing I thought a couple of days ago. What the fuck is wrong with the product managers of the Playstore?
this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2023
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Since mobile gaming has died for me anyway, i have no reason to browse the store. For what I use it for, it's fine. It has the apps i need and updates them.
Hey! I had forgotten about this little game. thanks for the reminder.
Dont know if you'll like what you will see if you decide to try it again, as another users famous comment stated, "enshittification spares no one" is at full play in two dots also. Although the devs do pump up updates regularly and add more and more levels. Just be prepared for an experience different from how it was a few years ago, if you are returning after a long interval!
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Yup! It's fucking insane...
I've got like $15 credit in the play store from Google Rewards surveys. I went into the play store today to browse for somethung and I felt like I was bombarded with crap, so I just closed it.
Everytime I open google play, I play a little game where I try to find a gacha anime game in the ads as fast as I can
Mine is that damn screaming face that all mobile games have.
It's even worse for developers.. sometimes you push out an app for internal or extenal test and it just.. sits there.. the users continue to see the old one. Or half of them get the new one and half get the old one, which makes no sense. This has been an issue for years with nothing but shrugs from google when you ask them about it.
OTOH with testflight you push out a build and 20 minutes later all testers get it, automatically, every time (I hate iOS development generally but that bit they got right).
When I search for two dots in the App Store, I get an ad for two dots and then dots, both top hits. It’s a weird way to deliver the ad, but I’m much happier with that than this bullshit.
When I search two dots, it's the first thing at the top of the results with ads underneath it. Possibly a regional difference?
Copying a response I made to a similar comment:
I, too was not able to reproduce the same result again.
When I tried to do the same search again, I had one column more dedicated to non ad space, namely, showing the description of the game. Dont know how I got that particular spread of ads galore at that particular moment.
Screenshot taken later with the same query:
My version of android is, indeed, an older one, and my region is India, I suppose all these factor into what I see when I search for stuff.
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@svotay I feel as if Google has lost there touch on how to make the playstore good, Glad I only use it to download apps I already know I want to download instead of browsing to find new apps to try out.
Just wait till they block sideloading and lock the bootloaders. The technological dystopia is coming.
EU is enforcing sideloading, even for Apple
Doesn't apply outside of EU. It's very easy to make different versions of phones. iPhone 14 in some countries have no sim card slot while in other countries it does. If they can do that for hardware, they can do it for software. They can make the requirement of sideloading be requiring turning on the GPS and you will be on the right side of the law, while blocking non-EU users from sideloading. Maybe they wont, but the point is that if they wanted to be evil for some reason, they can.
The ads are so fucking bad now on Google play.
Now the top part of my search menu shows ads whenever I'm looking for apps.
The entire app store idea is based around making money. You need look no further than the two sorting options: top free and top paid which translate to with ads and without ads.