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A2PKXG ,
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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.

boonhet ,

On the App Store, if I search for “Two Dots”, the first 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.

Tag365 ,
@Tag365@lemmy.world avatar

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

hardypart ,
@hardypart@feddit.de avatar

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?

Matriks404 ,

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/other game ported to Android.

Most of the stuff in the store is just unusable shit.

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.

99nights ,

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

boonhet ,

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.)

KpntAutismus ,

I use a huge amount of open source f-droid apps, like my keyboard, my mail app, the one i’m typing on right now, SD maid 2, (Revanced). in my opinion these apps are just better. not only because i can trust them, also because they simply do what i downloaded them for, in the most efficient way possible.

wokeally ,

fuck that woke trash corporation led by a fucking paki.

ohlaph ,

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woodenskewer ,
@woodenskewer@lemmy.world avatar

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.

Rawsark ,

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

Mikina ,

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.

ArcticCircleSystem ,

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

Mikina ,

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.

But I’m slowly building up the willpower to finally switch to Mulvad Browser + VPN, I really like the approach they took to fingerprinting - just use Tor Browser, don’t need any extensions, and it’s bundled with a VPN - so every other user has exactly the same fingerprint and IP as you, thus making you untrackable even by the most soffisticated methods. (Well, apart from the ones that uses ML to fingerprint you based on your typing and mouse habits…). But I have already gotten used to Librewolf, and it would mean getting rid of Bitwarden extension, and that’s -effort- :(

d3Xt3r ,

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

nix ,
@nix@merv.news avatar

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.

chiliedogg ,

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.

seiryth ,

Ytm definitely does have album content, wtf are you on about. Yes you can play videos there too, but it’s by no means the default.

It’s actually pretty good, just wish they did a lossless tier like tidal

chiliedogg ,

It’s mixed. The worst is playlists, which are mostly just YouTube playlists without video. Was trying to play a Disney song playlist for a friend’s kid, and it was definitely from the videos, with all the sound effects from the scenes in the movies instead of just the song.

zozosticot ,
@zozosticot@lemmy.world avatar

Btw, i use Fdroid

miss_brainfart ,
@miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml avatar

Becoming independent from the Play Store is probably the best thing I managed to do on my phone.

Though I use the Neo Store as my Fdroid client, since the official one seems to have some funky problems

Arthur_Leywin ,

Neo Store ty for that, gonna try that :D

SamXavia ,
@SamXavia@kbin.social avatar

@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.

minorsecond ,

Just wondering, is ios any better?

httpjames ,
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Search on the App Store is definitely better, although still far from perfect. There’s only one ad at the top, but any app that is new or unpopular is sometimes excluded from the results entirely.

Discovery on the apps page is very low as it only shows the stuff everybody knows about, like Tinder, Snapchat, etc.

gamer ,

It’s less obnoxious with the ads, but it often straight up refuses to show results even if you type out the exact name of the app you’re looking for. It also crashes surprisingly frequently, takes forever to load sometimes, and is overall a very “Apple” app.

jemorgan ,

I have personally never had something I’ve searched for not show up, I’ve never had the App Store crash a single time (I don’t think I’ve ever had any first-party app crash on iOS actually), and it’s always loaded for me as fast as my network will allow.

Just another anecdotal point of view, maybe the situation is different if you’re using an older iPhone?

krzschlss ,
@krzschlss@lemmy.world avatar

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.

StarLuigi ,
@StarLuigi@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

It is an advertisement company after all :/

krzschlss , (edited )
@krzschlss@lemmy.world avatar

Yes, but the product they sell is You. They’re more like a pimp version of ad companies. But not the racist Hollywood type, you know: funny dressed black guy with a cylinder hat and a cane. No, this one wears wife beaters, takes showers once or twice a month and takes advantage of you every day, and still sells you to the lowest bidder…

tony ,

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).

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