Ads upon ads upon ads

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    1 year ago

    The Samsung Galaxy Store is even fucking worse. I’ve noticed that tiktok is literally shoved in my face on every single platform. It’s always the very first one when I open the store. Be it windows, android or the Galaxy store. Not sure about Apple’s apps store, but it is ridiculous. On the windows store, they put it under the “essentials” category. Lmao Glad I have Linux on my main computer, though. No ads or bullshit, your computer is truly yours.

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      1 year ago

      i dont even touch the galaxy store unless i absolutely have to, something about it just feels so… off?

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        1 year ago

        It has that spammy feeling to it. That’s what’s off about it. I have never downloaded a single thing from it

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        1 year ago

        There are a handful of customisation apps that are only available through the Galaxy store. The ones I use are all Samsung official apps, but the poorly written descriptions on the install pages definitely make me uncomfortable.

        It’s like they only intended the apps for their Korean users, and ran the text through Google translate for the English versions.

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      1 year ago

      On the App Store, it’s also under the “essentials” section. The “Must-have iPhone apps”. Lmfao. I hate that state of technology in 2023. Burn it all down.

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        1 year ago

        What would you expect the algorithm to be if not to recommend the apps installed and used the most on their platform?

        I don’t use TikTok or FB, but it’s hard to blame them for suggesting apps that they have concrete usage data on saying they are the most used.