▲ 1449 ▼ The state of Playstore (lemmy.dbzer0.com) submitted 3 years ago by svotay@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world 294 comments fedilink hide all child comments Ads upon ads upon ads
[+] donut4ever@lemmy.world 79 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (3 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] Streetdog@lemmy.world 24 points 3 years ago Linux is great! It's such a zen environment. Apple's App Store has some ads. In my experience the first search result is always an ad, and every now and then the Today list features an ad. Not sure how much the normal data/results are skewed. It's a store so you have to expect some kinda marketing tricks to sell you more. They tend to feature popular stuff. It's nowhere near as abhorrent as the post here. I haven't run into TikTok unless it has been featured or if it is the top result in the popular (free) apps chart. I wouldn't dare searching for it 😆 permalink fedilink source parent [–] chicken@lemmy.world 10 points 3 years ago (2 children) i dont even touch the galaxy store unless i absolutely have to, something about it just feels so... off? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] ComradeBunnie@aussie.zone 5 points 3 years ago There are a handful of customisation apps that are only available through the Galaxy store. The ones I use are all Samsung official apps, but the poorly written descriptions on the install pages definitely make me uncomfortable. It's like they only intended the apps for their Korean users, and ran the text through Google translate for the English versions. permalink fedilink source parent [+] donut4ever@lemmy.world 5 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent [–] bloodtide@lemmy.world 6 points 3 years ago (1 child) On the App Store, it’s also under the “essentials” section. The “Must-have iPhone apps”. Lmfao. I hate that state of technology in 2023. Burn it all down. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Wrench@lemmy.world 5 points 3 years ago What would you expect the algorithm to be if not to recommend the apps installed and used the most on their platform? I don't use TikTok or FB, but it's hard to blame them for suggesting apps that they have concrete usage data on saying they are the most used. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Streetdog@lemmy.world 24 points 3 years ago Linux is great! It's such a zen environment. Apple's App Store has some ads. In my experience the first search result is always an ad, and every now and then the Today list features an ad. Not sure how much the normal data/results are skewed. It's a store so you have to expect some kinda marketing tricks to sell you more. They tend to feature popular stuff. It's nowhere near as abhorrent as the post here. I haven't run into TikTok unless it has been featured or if it is the top result in the popular (free) apps chart. I wouldn't dare searching for it 😆 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] chicken@lemmy.world 10 points 3 years ago (2 children) i dont even touch the galaxy store unless i absolutely have to, something about it just feels so... off? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] ComradeBunnie@aussie.zone 5 points 3 years ago There are a handful of customisation apps that are only available through the Galaxy store. The ones I use are all Samsung official apps, but the poorly written descriptions on the install pages definitely make me uncomfortable. It's like they only intended the apps for their Korean users, and ran the text through Google translate for the English versions. permalink fedilink source parent [+] donut4ever@lemmy.world 5 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ComradeBunnie@aussie.zone 5 points 3 years ago There are a handful of customisation apps that are only available through the Galaxy store. The ones I use are all Samsung official apps, but the poorly written descriptions on the install pages definitely make me uncomfortable. It's like they only intended the apps for their Korean users, and ran the text through Google translate for the English versions. permalink fedilink source parent
[+] donut4ever@lemmy.world 5 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent
[–] bloodtide@lemmy.world 6 points 3 years ago (1 child) On the App Store, it’s also under the “essentials” section. The “Must-have iPhone apps”. Lmfao. I hate that state of technology in 2023. Burn it all down. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Wrench@lemmy.world 5 points 3 years ago What would you expect the algorithm to be if not to recommend the apps installed and used the most on their platform? I don't use TikTok or FB, but it's hard to blame them for suggesting apps that they have concrete usage data on saying they are the most used. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Wrench@lemmy.world 5 points 3 years ago What would you expect the algorithm to be if not to recommend the apps installed and used the most on their platform? I don't use TikTok or FB, but it's hard to blame them for suggesting apps that they have concrete usage data on saying they are the most used. permalink fedilink source parent
