medgremlin ( @medgremlin@lemmy.sdf.org ) 60•9 months agoTo be fair, it is a service/website that sows discord in American society.
Polar ( @Polar@lemmy.ca ) 6•9 months agoExactly. Discord isn’t a service name first, it’s a word with meaning.
People acting like discord is a made up word invented by the app.
ChaoticNeutralCzech ( @ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de ) 4•9 months agoWhich is why alternative apps are definitely putting the word “discord” in their metadata to get close to Discord in search results without fear of trademark infringement.
makeasnek ( @makeasnek@lemmy.ml ) 31•9 months agoRemember that every time you click an ad, you cost the advertiser somewhere between 10c and several dollars. And that which ads you’ve clicked on informs which ads you will get in the future. It would be a shame if somebody weaponized this knowledge and clicked ads without any actual interest in buying the products.
Anarki_ ( @Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 11•9 months agoAdNauseam extension for Firefox does this
CleoTheWizard ( @CleoTheWizard@beehaw.org ) English11•9 months agoNo. It’s an open secret kind of deal that most online advertisements don’t actually sell or do anything. In fact, a large amount of google views are bots.
How? Because there’s nothing stopping thousands of apps from using the ads incorrectly and showing them to phones or accounts or users that aren’t real people. At least with iOS, it’s very hard to run instances on servers or bot clients. Meanwhile, android can run on windows. Exploits galore.
But, no one cares. The companies are told to spend more on advertisement. The ad department of the company has a budget, they don’t care where it’s spent. So they buy ads from google and they don’t care who they get shown to 90% of the time. Everyone wins except the company but the company doesn’t care because they’re already making money.
Not to mention that the average consumer is shown thousands of ads a day. The more they see the less they notice the ads.
Basically ads are just designed to waste time for everyone. Truth social ads just lead to more installs by people already looking for their garbage app.
trailing9 ( @trailing9@lemmy.ml ) 4•9 months agoCompanies don’t care because it’s equal for everybody. If fake views would be removed, fees per thousand clicks would just increase.
But companies wouldn’t waste money. If you offer more real viewers for the same price, companies would switch.
cheery_coffee ( @cheery_coffee@lemmy.ca ) 2•9 months agoIt’s petty, but when I search for a company and their competitor appears above them as an ad, I always click the ad then close the tab.
It drives up their bounce rate and costs them money each time.
rgb3x3 ( @rgb3x3@beehaw.org ) 29•9 months agoPlay store search results are mostly ads now. It’s really bad and unhelpful.
In fact, most of the play store is ads. It’s impossible to find anything of quality anymore.
ChaoticNeutralCzech ( @ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de ) 11•9 months agoThe shittiest thing in the Google Play Store is searching for incompatible apps. Not only cannot you get an outdated compatible version (which is fair enough), they just don’t show up with no warning whatsoever. This encourages impersonation because way too many people just install the first result.
Polar ( @Polar@lemmy.ca ) 8•9 months agothey just don’t show up with no warning whatsoever.
That’s so untrue.
RogueBanana ( @RogueBanana@lemmy.zip ) 5•9 months agoThat isn’t straight up a lie either. I had a similar experience before on an old device where it simply filters out incompatible apps. Not sure if it was just default setting or wasn’t modifiable at all. I don’t use play store anymore so can’t test it either but it certainly is a valid concern either way. Probably why it’s changed now.
Zoop ( @Zoop@beehaw.org ) 3•9 months agoI’ve had the exact same experience many times over the years and I’ve never seen anything like the message in that screenshot. Hopefully that little message in their screenshot is the default way of handling these things now!
RogueBanana ( @RogueBanana@lemmy.zip ) 2•9 months agoI checked on my sisters phone and got the same message. Seems to be the default now.
ChaoticNeutralCzech ( @ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de ) 1•9 months agoMaybe something changed in 2023, I’ve been only using alternatives (F-Droid + Aurora) on my phone since January.
Also, your Android version is too new, which I’ve never seen before (and didn’t know that could happen).
AeroLemming ( @AeroLemming@lemm.ee ) English6•9 months agoUse the Aurora store. It’s an open source alternative frontend.
- Omega_Haxors ( @Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml ) 28•9 months ago
People said I was crazy for pointing out that google actively sides with the extremely far right but at least now people are starting to see it.
Polar ( @Polar@lemmy.ca ) 21•9 months agoDude, mine promotes an app for finding friends.
Google is suggesting this because of OPs history. Calm your tits.
SargTeaPot ( @Sargteapot@lemmy.nz ) 9•9 months agoMines a chat app for singles hahaha
Polar ( @Polar@lemmy.ca ) 2•9 months agoGoogle is pushing relationships on you! /s
ALostInquirer ( @ALostInquirer@lemm.ee ) 3•9 months agoOut of curiosity, are you Canadian, or just on the Canadian instance? I ask because if memory serves the search results tend to be a combination of search history (if you have personalized ads enabled, you can opt out of them), country/region, and general subject/topic (so in this case social apps), probably among other details.
cheery_coffee ( @cheery_coffee@lemmy.ca ) 1•9 months agoFor these types of things there’s usually a statistical scale where you fall between your interests and your demographic interests.
An ad might be targeted to your location, gender, age, or your ad-interests.
Go to your Google Ad preferences and see what they know about you, it’s a lot.
- Omega_Haxors ( @Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml ) 2•9 months ago
That’s pretty funny. I don’t think that app is going to help you if this is how you treat people.
Polar ( @Polar@lemmy.ca ) 1•9 months agoDon’t need it, thanks.
Psythik ( @Psythik@lemm.ee ) 10•9 months agoI believe it. The algorithm keeps pushing far right videos to my feed despite Google knowing damn well that I can’t stand Republicans. Not to mention that it likes to show left wing media to the far right, so that they can dislike it and brigade the comments. Yet when a Fox News video is posted, nothing but likes and praise in the comments. If you didn’t know any better it could lead you to believe that 90% of Americans are MAGA Republicans.
Schadrach ( @Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org ) 5•9 months agoMore likely it’s a combination of his previous search history and how much Truth Social is paying for ad space.
Mario_Dies.wav ( @LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 11•9 months agoI wonder which companies advertise there
- Omega_Haxors ( @Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml ) 3•9 months ago
Bots, just like their engagement.
cry ( @crycry@lemmy.ml ) 10•9 months agoTo be fair, it is marked as an Advertisement. Ads will always appear above your search results. Thats how they get you! /s
Weirdly i got some ad for a programme called Bigo Live - Live Stream,Chat as ad when searching for Discord.
auth ( @authed@lemmy.ml ) 7•9 months agoBlock ads?
ram ( @ram@bookwormstory.social ) English3•9 months agoHow do you block ads in the Google Play Store app?
Rai ( @Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 4•9 months agoUse an iPhone bahahaha
(The App Store on iOS is just as bad as the Play Store, if not worse. They delete tons of legit reviews. The Reddit app is 4.8 where I am. Diablo Immortal is 4.6. I love my iPhone but the App Store is the worst part about it.)
Hopscotch ( @Hopscotch@lemmy.ml ) 3•9 months agoBy not using it.
Seriously though, F-Droid (a Play Store alternative) has a lot of nice apps.
windtorn ( @windtorn@beehaw.org ) 2•9 months agoIf you need some of the apps on play store, use aurora store
Hopscotch ( @Hopscotch@lemmy.ml ) 1•9 months agoYes, Aurora Store works alright for that
ram ( @ram@bookwormstory.social ) English2•9 months agoI personally use Obtainium, since I’ve found updating apps on F-Droid’s not a very good experience.
Hopscotch ( @Hopscotch@lemmy.ml ) 2•9 months agoObtainium looks interesting; thanks for sharing. I wonder about the security implications.
Hopscotch ( @Hopscotch@lemmy.ml ) 1•9 months agoI assume you are referring to the behavior when F-Droid has limited permissions with regard to app installation (but maybe you’re referring to something else):
If F-Droid is included as part of the system, such as with CalyxOS, as a system app, or with the F-Droid privileged extension (if that’s still offered), then the app updating/installation behavior is a lot more like what Play Store has.