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.

  • Polar@lemmy.caEnglish
    415·
    11 months ago

    Also pretty easy to tell by the large, bolded, SPONSORED text on the top left.

    Especially since English is read top left to bottom right.

    I’m all for calling out shit, but this can’t really be more obvious.

    • eskimofry@lemmy.worldEnglish
      23·
      11 months ago

      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!”

    • J'Pol @lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      25·
      11 months ago

      I have no idea why you are being downvoted. It isn’t even deceptive as the post implies. Scummy? 1000%. Deceptive? No.

      • macattack@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        21·
        11 months ago

        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

        • Polar@lemmy.caEnglish
          11·
          11 months ago

          Read. Use your fucking brain and read. Don’t make excuses for not fucking reading.

        • Polar@lemmy.caEnglish
          11·
          11 months ago

          You should awfully like someone who can’t read and blames others for their own mistakes.

      • Polar@lemmy.caEnglish
        13·
        11 months ago

        Because Lemmy is full of insufferable entitled assholes.