It’s not icky for a literal advertising company to advertise, no. Can it be annoying at times, sure. I’m getting more from them than they are me, so I’m good.
But Im not stock and they don’t have their super power over my phone.
Play Store doing this since September, at least in my region (SE Asia). If you disabled personalized ads on your Google Account, Play Store homepage displays ads that are frequently installed from your country/state.
Indeed. Most apps I got on the homepage, mostly fast cash lending apps, were developed from China, and then outsourced its customer-based services to my country.
As someone mentioned earlier, it’s a dark pattern, which is inherently deceptive. It’s the same as if an app creator moved the order of the Accept/Decline buttons suddenly to get more people to unintentionally enroll in subscriptions
Nobody fucking reads text. Its muscle memory. Google trained people to expect the correct result. It’s fucking bullshit that people like you point out “iT SaYs SpONsorED!”
I don’t mind it so much as it makes it hard to find the actual application I’m looking for most of the time. Your case here is a perfect example of this.
Google has done crappy “suggested results” for so many years now that I automatically ignore the top results from any Google search, so all this does is make it harder to find things :-(
I think you you have a much more limited perspective that doesn’t hold Google as accountable as many people. Here’s a snippet from an article breaking down the subtleties of the adjustments Google makes re: dark patterns:
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