I asked a relative to look for RealVNC on the Play Store and install it. Once they were done, I asked them to fulfill a basic task inside RealVNC and they were really confused by my instructions. I took a look at their phone, lo and behold, they had installed a different app. I asked them to repeat the install procedure while I watched. They punched in “realvnc” in the search box, two identically formatted results appeared. Their finger instinctively clicked the Install button on the top result. It was an ad. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♀️🤦

  • snooggums@midwest.socialEnglish
    01·
    1 month ago

    No, fuck that. The ads being listed before rhe first result are intended to cause people to misclick. That isn’t all on the user.

    Don’t excuse predatory business practices.

    • Ilandar@aussie.zoneEnglish
      1·
      1 month ago

      Are you illiterate? My very next sentence was:

      However, the Play Store is undoubtedly trash and anti-consumer which is why I primarily use the Aurora Store even on non-deGoogled phones.