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.

  • J'Pol @lemmy.sdf.org
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    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.

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      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.ca
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        11 months ago

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

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        11 months ago

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

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      11 months ago

      Because Lemmy is full of insufferable entitled assholes.