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.
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.
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!”
Then it sounds like a you problem…
I have no idea why you are being downvoted. It isn’t even deceptive as the post implies. Scummy? 1000%. Deceptive? No.
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
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You sound awfully like a google lawyer.
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Because Lemmy is full of insufferable entitled assholes.
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