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.

      • 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
          13·
          11 months ago

          Because Lemmy is full of insufferable entitled assholes.