The state of Playstore

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• nottheengineer@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Enshittification spares no one.

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  • SJ0@lemmy.fbxl.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “the play store is shit now!”

    The play store was always shit.

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• Alivrah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  A single row of ads would be ok, but having this many plus an ad showing up first, where the search results should be… Oof

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• illectrility@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  laughs in F-Droid

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  • albert@lemmy.sysctl.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I am so glad F-Droid exists. For the apps I need that aren’t there (Steam and Blizzard authenticator for 2FA) Aurora has been a godsend

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  • CherenkovBlue@iusearchlinux.fyi ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Alright, help me out. I had fdroid before but changed phones. What do I need to do to get fdroid nowadays?

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    • gunpachi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You can go to their official website and download it - f-droid.org

      Personally I prefer to use fdroid through Droid-ify.

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    • damnYouSun@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You need to install it?

      It won’t carry over because it’s not a local play app but you should be able to install it the same way you did on your old phone.

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• puddlexplorer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Thanks to Lemmy, my phone went full FOSS. Always go full FOSS.

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  • Xylight@lemmy.xylight.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s great that you can’t unlock the bootloader to install graphene on carrier bought devices 👍

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    • CoderKat@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      In Canada, carriers are required to only sell unlocked phones for the past several years.

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    • zeekzag@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Can unlock it on my machine 😎

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    • HurlingDurling@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Or samsung devices

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• Cyyy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  it got worse and worse over the last 1-2 years. this days you can’t even open an app description page on desktop anymore. you search for the name…and you can’t click on the app listing. it just gives you the option to install on your phone but not to read the store page. you only get to it by searching on Google for it. and the mobile app is like you said shit too. often you can’t even find an app and get random ads for other shitty apps.

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  • oldfart@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It sounds like you’re browsing the web signed in to your Google account. Sign out and clear cookies, or go Incognito.

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    • Cyyy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      what has this to do with signed in our not? google does the same if you’re not logged in

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    • Cyyy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      what has this to do with signed in our not? google does the same if you’re not logged in

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• Mikina@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’ve lost all of my faith in mobile gaming ecosystem ever since I saw that talk of the two guys that created a bot for generating and uploading as many slot machine games to the playstore as possible, just generic pull a lever, see an ad and that’s it, based on a random keyword like “owl slot machine” or “bathtub sloth machine” with pictures pulled from google images, that let the bot run for a few months and then found out that they made literally thousands of dollars of ad money.

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  • ArcticCircleSystem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I see Google’s review process for apps on the Play Store is as bad as their review process for extensions on the Chrome Web Store. Every couple of months ago, a new batch of malware is found on CWS, and you almost never see that with Firefox’s add-on marketplace, even when accounting for Firefox-based browsers having a much smaller userbase. And I’ve noticed that when it does happen, Mozilla is much quicker in laying down the banhammer than Google. Hell, Mozilla banned a browser hijacker named FVD Speed Dial, whilw Google has it featured on CWS to this day. ~Cherri

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    • Mikina@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      When I was looking for a good ad-blocker a few years back, I remember stumbling upon something like… Nano Defender? I’m not sure what was the name, but it was one of the few succesful anti-adblocks that managed to get past most of adblock killers, and was generally recommended on Reddit.

      After a few years, the guy sold the extension to some Indian company that promptly infected it with credential stealing malware, which compromised most of my and my GFs accounts. Ever since that, I just don’t use any extensions apart from ublock and Bitwarden, since it’s just a huge security risk.

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• Matriks404@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I like how like 10 years ago everyone went crazy about the apps. It seemed like you could have an app for everything, and everyone was enthusiastic about it. Nowadays I only open Play Store when I am in the need of specific utility, or to buy some classic RPG. Most of the stuff in the store is just unusable shit.

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  • 99nights@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Agreed. Mostly everything in the store can also be easily done in a browser too.

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  • boonhet@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And we need a store with actual quality apps (with no micro transactions, and being reviewed by people who care about usability), because certainly Google Play is not a good source for them.

    Fdroid apps CAN have microtransactions I believe, and they’re not curated either, but overall, the quality is much better than Play Store and most apps are free and open source.

    Alternatively, for games in particular, Apple Arcade is great, but it’s a subscription (cheap if combined with Music, TV and iCloud storage, otherwise several euros per month). The games aren’t allowed to have MTX or ads if they want to be on Arcade. But of course that requires moving to iOS (where the app store is much better than Play Store, BUT you don’t get alternatives like Fdroid on Android.)

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• rageagainstmachines@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Wait, what? A shitty Google product? Plagued by ads and spyware? No way!

  As others have pointed out here, use Aurora Store or F-Droid.

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• d3Xt3r@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The Play Store peaked back when it was still called Android Market (which I still reckon is a better name). DAE remember this?

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  • nix@merv.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Play store sounds like a game marketplace. Also Play has nothing to do with anything in googles brand so its really confusing why its still called that.

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    • chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They tried having a Play ecosystem with Google Play Video, Music, Games, etc. Music was actually pretty good, so of course Google killed it in favor of YouTube Music, which is terrible and plays YouTube video versions of songs instead of actual album stuff.

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• zozosticot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Btw, i use Fdroid

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• Pietrasagh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Try out Aurora Store. Just started testing it. Looks and works similar to play store but without adds. You can login with your google account.

  f-droid.org/en/packages/com.aurora.store/

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  • Myrbolg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Thanks for that, looks pretty nice. Though I’m concerned now trading Google might block your account for using it.

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  • necrxfagivs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    When I’m installing F-Droid I get a security alert about it being developed for a previous android version and that it doesn’t include latest privacy updates. How legit is that? I’m downloading the apk throught their official website f-droid.org

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    • 33KK@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s so the app still runs on ancient android versions. Use the Droid-ify client instead if you don’t want that

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• ohlaph@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  Anyway, what’s the big deal?

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  • woodenskewer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You’ve done quite a bit of typing on your touchscreen there. You would enjoy this BT keyboard sold by asabravatechioxnchientopia. Don’t forget AAA batteries.

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• drasticpotatoes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The Apple App Store isn’t much better. I searched for the Mint Mobile app the other day and the top hit was an ad for something completely unrelated that didn’t even have mint or mobile in its name.

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  • wrongturn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Maybe they don’t have enough info on you to show targetted ads. Lucky you

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    • drasticpotatoes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Dunno about that. Ads are ads to me. I hate em all. Funny thing is is that the app stores for Google and Apple are pretty much the only places I’ve seen them in quite awhile.

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• Anders429@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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.

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  • fearout@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Poor Apple users don’t have to deal with this shit

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  • svotay@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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    • FireWire400@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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    • Anders429@lemmy.world ⁨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.

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• Rawsark@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  We’ve all seen how movies depicted the future. Full of advertisement, even in kids show like Walle

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• krzschlss@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Google is just a colorful façade. The insides of this bloated monstrosity is filled with ads and sellable user data. It needs to be put out of its misery.

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• A2PKXG@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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.

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• nevetsg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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  • svotay@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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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    • nevetsg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Thanks for the info. I have been playing through and yes. It seems more like candy crush than the Two Dots I remember.

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• Bishma@social.fossware.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I didn’t appreciated the FDroid UX until Google app designers lost their damn minds. Now it makes me feel relief.

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• StealthToad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They’re everywhere

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• hardypart@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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?

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• stackPeek@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Mine is worse: oftentimes it’s just filled with ads for an online loan servicesand I feel like most of those are just scams. It’s disgusting how they allow this.

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• boonhet@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  On the App Store, 2/3 of my screen is filled with “Two Dots” and when I scroll down, I get related apps. And when I scroll down FURTHER, I see ads for other apps.

  Android the open-source OS is cool and all. As soon as you involve Google in your Android experience, you’re better off getting an iPhone instead. They at least have the common courtesy of giving you a reach-around while they… y’know.

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• SamXavia@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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• Lordgeoffery@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Double your pleasure double your fun 😉

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• qwertychomp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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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• gon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yup! It’s fucking insane…

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• user224@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That’s… good. Installing an app on more devices is a nice feature.

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  • baronvonj@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I mean silver lining and all, sure. But did you notice that like 55-60% of the screen is ad-driven “suggestions?”

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    • user224@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Wait,…, it’s all ads! I kinda missed it says “Ads”.

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  • Anders429@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Literally 80% of the screen is just useless garbage ads. It takes some effort to actually locate where the real search result is on the screen.

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  • gon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    LMFAO I didn’t even see that in the midst of all the clutter!

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• Tag365@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What was Heartless Ansem’s famous quote again? Oh yeah. “And now darkness within darkness awaits you.” But ads instead of darkness.

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• wokeally@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  fuck that woke trash corporation led by a fucking paki.

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