Ads upon ads upon ads
The entire app store idea is based around making money. You need look no further than the two sorting options: top free and top paid which translate to with ads and without ads.
this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2023
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no ads in Aurora Store (:
Google play is fucked for many years now. Gone are the days of Gingerbreads, Ice Cream Sandwiches and Jelly Beans.
Double your pleasure double your fun 😉
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.
They also pester you with notifications and they're always some candy crush trash shit
I am really lately hating my android phone and the targeted ads disguised as "Article I might be interested in" in the google now section of my phone.
I'm tempted to switch to an iphone but I realize the same problems exist over there too. We need a new mobileOS....with blackjack
Firefox with ublock and duckduckgo seems to help my android experience. This is my first non apple smart phone.
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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.
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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.
What was Heartless Ansem's famous quote again? Oh yeah. "And now darkness within darkness awaits you." But ads instead of darkness.