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sahlays ,

Prueba

grill , (edited )

Google play is fucked for many years now. Gone are the days of Gingerbreads, Ice Cream Sandwiches and Jelly Beans.

yzzerdd ,

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.

HipPriest ,

Nothing new there.

I use Minireview to get game recommendations to bypass searching through the play store

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=minireview.best.android.games.reviews

z3n0x ,
@z3n0x@feddit.de avatar

Yo dawg, I heard you liked ads …

revengebreaker ,
@revengebreaker@kbin.social avatar

I use Aurora store with Google play sign in. So i've never noticed any ads lol

Mr_Buscemi ,
@Mr_Buscemi@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

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.

noodlejetski ,

no ads in Aurora Store (:

JasSmith ,

Europeans will be able to take advantage of the DMA early next year. Google will have to allow us to install competing app stores without extra steps. No special security warnings or restrictions. I expect some solid competition soon.

kratoz29 ,

Your ads has a bit of store.

Sabin10 ,

When I search two dots, it’s the first thing at the top of the results with ads underneath it. Possibly a regional difference?

svotay OP ,

Copying a response I made to a similar comment:

I, too was not able to reproduce the same result again.

When I tried to do the same search again, I had one column more dedicated to non ad space, namely, showing the description of the game. Dont know how I got that particular spread of ads galore at that particular moment.

Screenshot taken later with the same query:

postimg.cc/JtjHLG9Z

My version of android is, indeed, an older one, and my region is India, I suppose all these factor into what I see when I search for stuff.

Legge ,

For me, the first search result started being an ad a few months ago. I accidentally clicked them a couple times before realizing and then paying more attention. Android 13 and Android 11 (2 different devices) both in US

Holyhandgrenade ,
@Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world avatar

Without exception, whenever I search for a specific app I need to Google it because the App Store search function is so utterly shit.
It never just shows me what I’m searching for, it’s always shitty predatory apps with a million ads that show up first.

Koffiato ,

Also, the frame drops. Oh the frame drops. Searching and app and scrolling down always drops frames since Google switched away from Android Market. I can’t imagine how does it still happen to this day lmao.

shrugal ,
@shrugal@lemmy.world avatar

Just leaving this here: Aurora Store

kennyboy55 ,

What is the difference with F-Droid?

SomethingBurger ,

It’s an alternative client to the Play Store. It does not access F-Droid repos.

samsy ,

F-Droid has special FOSS Apps only. Aurora Store delivers the same Apps like Play Store.

fushuan ,

Others answered you, but aurora also has an F-Droid replacement called Aurora Droid.

squozenode ,

Aurora store is basically anonymous access to the official Google Play store.

You can download any app because unlike the Google Play store Aurora doesn’t send your phones hardware ID, so if for example your phone is rooted you can get the Disney Plus app anyway.

Fdroid is an alternate app store. They have different things than the Google Play store. They respect your privacy and will let you download any app that is ever been uploaded to them, Even old versions of an app.

majestictechie , (edited )

Ok this is actually pretty cool. So I gave this a try and what I found in the first few mins of using it:

  • you can login anonymously or with your own Google account (anonymous logs you into one of their shared Gmail accounts which personally I don’t like the idea of)
  • it manages all existing apps too, so you can use it as a drop in replacement for the play store.
  • Updates aren’t as well, there doesn’t appear to be a background update option as android requires you to confirm if you wish to install the update for each app.

Overall solid app. I don’t spend a lot of time in the PlayStore so the ads themselves don’t bother me. The moment though I begin getting pop up ads / notifications I’ll be jumping to this full time though

redcalcium ,

Just be careful when using your own google account on Aurora Store. There are reports of people getting their account banned by google. Do not use an important google account there.

Sir_Kevin ,
@Sir_Kevin@discuss.online avatar

Another cool feature is you can spoof your device’s name. This can allow you to install apps that daddy Google does not approve of for your device.

XEAL ,

Aside of the lack of ads, I now depend on Aurora Store for batch app updates because the cocksuckers at Google Play have allowed devs to force app version updates even when you have disabled automatic updates for that specific app.

Boinketh ,

How do you deal with waiting for and then pressing “Install” for every app? It’s so tedious. Is there no way without root?

XEAL ,

IDK… I root all of my devices ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Boinketh ,

That’s pretty gigachad, but I’m scared to because it voids the warranty :(

XEAL ,

Agree, there’s a risk even if you don’t break anything.

Lev_Astov ,
@Lev_Astov@lemmy.world avatar

Isn’t that one of the things the FTC says can’t void warranties? They’ve been going after companies for those lousy warranty void stickers lately.

Boinketh ,

Oh you’re right, TIL. I guess I’ve fallen victim to the corporate propaganda.

TwinTusks , (edited )

Um … can I sign in with my google account?

It appears that I can, wonderful.

ultratiem ,
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