Ads upon ads upon ads
i'm still just pissed that they renamed it to "play store"
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.
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?
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
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Yup! It's fucking insane...
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 two dots, it's the first thing at the top of the results with ads underneath it. Possibly a regional difference?
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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.
@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.
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.
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.