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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

i'm still just pissed that they renamed it to "play store"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Mine is that damn screaming face that all mobile games have.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Yup! It's fucking insane...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

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).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Welcome to being a product!

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

When I search for two dots in the App Store, I get an ad for two dots and then dots, both top hits. It’s a weird way to deliver the ad, but I’m much happier with that than this bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yo dawg, I heard you liked ads ...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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.

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