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[–] Anders429 28 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Just be glad you're on Android and have alternatives to this. Poor Apple users are stuck with whatever Apple decided to do with the app store.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

Can confirm on my own device. Only ad in sight is for two dots itself at the top ... I kept scrolling looking for one and didn't see any.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Lol the ad is also the very same thing you're searching for

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Whats the ad situation on app store, do they aggressively push stuff into your throats there as well?

[–] FireWire400 51 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not at all from my experience. The App Store generally looks cleaner and more organised.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I hope for your sake that they at least stick to that. The google approach seems to be that they are too big to fail and that they can keep doing what they want, and what they want, apparently is more space for ads!

[–] FireWire400 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Unfortunately that seems to be the case with Google products (see YouTube on mobile). Most users might not even care about the excessive ads and Google knows that.

Luckily, there seem to be many alternatives on Android. If Apple was to ad-ify the App Store, you wouldn't have that many options (outside of jailbreaking and maybe the Altstore).

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

Google made 80% of its revenue from ads last year. No wonder they're trying to force ads everywhere they can

[–] Sheltac 3 points 1 year ago

That’s soon to change when regulations come in to force apple to allow sideloading.

[–] SpeedLimit55 14 points 1 year ago

Google is an advertising company.

[–] TurboDiesel 6 points 1 year ago

I'd take the in-store ads if they enforced consistent behavior for in-app ads. It's infuriating to have an ad that plays for 30sec or whatever, only to then force you to wait ANOTHER 5-15sec on the title card for the close button to appear. Or, worse yet, have an ad that automatically opens the Play Store unless you can hit the 2px close button.

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

They just recently (like in the past few weeks) added an ad slot in the ios app store that I actively hate, but it's the first one that's just there (and not in search). Just wait though. Soon the app store will look exactly like this shot of the play store.

[–] Anders429 3 points 1 year ago

Afaik it's not nearly at all like this. Doesn't change the fact that you have absolutely no alternatives, though. If apple did decide to do this, you couldn't just sideload the apps yourself.

[–] thorbot 12 points 1 year ago

Yes, Poor Apple Users are stuck with no ads at all! What a Shame

[–] AndrewZabar 11 points 1 year ago

Yeah Apple doesn’t do this to the users whatsoever.