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.

      • snooggums@midwest.socialEnglish
        01·
        1 month ago

        If the practices are predatory, blaming the user is excusing the predatory practices. Bragging about how you use something else in that context is doubling down on blaming the user instead of the practices.

        So no, I am not illiterate. You ahould have just left off the sentence blaming the victim.