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[–] nevetsg@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Hey! I had forgotten about this little game. thanks for the reminder.

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[–] june@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] gon@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Yup! It's fucking insane...

[–] qwertychomp@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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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[–] yzzerdd@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] solarzones@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Welcome to being a product!

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[–] Sabin10@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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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[–] tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk 5 points 2 years ago

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).

[–] SamXavia@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

@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.

[–] Godnroc@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

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.

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