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    Play store search results are mostly ads now. It’s really bad and unhelpful.

    In fact, most of the play store is ads. It’s impossible to find anything of quality anymore.

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      The shittiest thing in the Google Play Store is searching for incompatible apps. Not only cannot you get an outdated compatible version (which is fair enough), they just don’t show up with no warning whatsoever. This encourages impersonation because way too many people just install the first result.

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        they just don’t show up with no warning whatsoever.

        That’s so untrue.

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          That isn’t straight up a lie either. I had a similar experience before on an old device where it simply filters out incompatible apps. Not sure if it was just default setting or wasn’t modifiable at all. I don’t use play store anymore so can’t test it either but it certainly is a valid concern either way. Probably why it’s changed now.

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            I’ve had the exact same experience many times over the years and I’ve never seen anything like the message in that screenshot. Hopefully that little message in their screenshot is the default way of handling these things now!

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          Maybe something changed in 2023, I’ve been only using alternatives (F-Droid + Aurora) on my phone since January.

          Also, your Android version is too new, which I’ve never seen before (and didn’t know that could happen).