They’ve started inserting a subtle ad as the first result instead of the actual app you’re searching for.
This has to have been a change over the last month or two I feel like?
I’m having to reprogram myself to view the first result as irrelevant. Really makes me want to increase the F-Droid alternatives that I use.
MrStetson, 
Almost all ads are icky
spader312, This has always been the case in Google search (you know the search engine Google started with as a company). Drove me crazy when I would see an old person click the AD link instead of the actual search result
dynamojoe, It’s about as icky as looking at my bank account and my bank highlighting a transfer to an investment house and suggesting its’ own in the same line.
robinj1995, Please tell me this is in the US
FederatedSaint, The digital zeitgeist is a fuckin dystopia.
Kodemystic, 
Dude they’d place adds directly in your medula spine fluid orif somethin if they could.
isVeryLoud, Yes, happens all the time.
Some sort of malware will always pop up before the app you’re looking for.
synceDD, 
So icky.😱
Lunachocken, I literally just prioritise f droid, and a Google App search tool I found a bit ago that let’s you sort such to show no Inapp etc
Where it came from: reddit.com/…/my_advanced_google_play_search_engin…
bulwark, Thanks for that playsearch link. I’d never heard of that and detest the wasteland that is the Google Play store. Fdroid is good but I use droidify.
peg, It’s gross and deceptive. I report them every time.
bigdog_00, Use the Aurora Store!
macattack, I have a new convert now, thanks for the suggestion!
sagrotan, 
F-droid’s your friend
mojo, If you’re against this kind of behavior, you should advocate that Android/iOS are platforms and not products, so that centralized app stores are a medium for developers and not a proprietary product under one company.
AceFuzzLord, Can’t think of a singular time that type of stuff hasn’t been icky and absolutely disgusting.
XbSuper, It clearly says sponsored, so not really no.
eskimofry, deleted_by_moderator
XbSuper, What? When did law get brought into this? Lemmy is weird.
Polar, Lemmy users are so fucking annoying. All of the shitty people from Reddit moved here.
eskimofry, You and the moron who thinks that when some one talks about a comment that feels like it came from a google lawyer also sound like you came from reddit.
eskimofry, Lawyer != law. In my mind, this comment just sounded like it came from a nitpicky lawyer representing google.
flop_leash_973, Yes it is gross, it Apple does the same thing in their app store. So it is nothing that can be avoided with using the major players.
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