I’ve became used to enabling the play store only when I want to update or install certain specific app. I just leave the play store disable, so I don’t get updates for each an every app that I might not even use.
I just wish there was a way to do this without having to browse the apps menu and find the play store each time.Try something like 3C Toolbox or QuickShortcut Maker.
3C can do this for sure, though you may have to pay for pro to create custom shortcuts
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This is great, thank you!
I don’t have the Play Store on my phone. F-Droid (Droidify), Aurora Store, Obtanium, and Accrescent.
If neither Google nor Apple took such a massive rake on the payments, fewer people would take issue with the main app distribution implementations. They have valid reasons for trying to keep you in their ecosystem, but those are severely undercut by taking such a huge percentage.
What is it, 30%? That’s pretty standard.
Standard? They’re the only two players, if they both took 99% it would be standard
No definitely don’t sideload a YouTube client that doesn’t play ads!
What color do you like? I like Gray.
I like the red one with a pipe
Basically everything outside fdroid is riddled with trackers and ads so no, thanks
Funny how search engine giant Google doesn’t implement a filter for “no ads, no in-app purchases.”
People might actually be able to find what they’re looking for instead of what google wants them to find.
So does the OS. It’s done that from the beginning, but it doesn’t prevent it outright. Who gives a shit?
Honestly been steadily becoming less happy with the way Google/Android has been going even since Pichai took over.
Enshittification.
What makes you say that, specifically?
It’s a term coined by Cory Doctorow, Sci-Fi writer and ex-EFF, who has been writing about (tech) monopolies, and in particular monopsonies, and how those types of two sided markets originally grow by given users something they need, often for an artificial low price or even free, until they dominate that side of the market, after which they focus mostly on the other side of the market, in this case advertisers, and step by step, slowly dismantling the reason users originally liked their product… Enshittification.
Doctorow has lots to say, so here’s a link.
Now that the concept has caught on so widely, I’ve often wished @[email protected] had gone with a less scatological term. But maybe that is part of the reason it caught on 🤷🏻♀️
That’s 100% the reason it caught on.
People around here seem to really really like saying it.
There is some perception bias there, because you won’t hear that much from people who don’t want to use the term (like me), unless they engage in a pointless meta-comment like this one.
That’s fair. I personally hate it, but I see it in almost every thread about what big tech is up to.
“Ensuckification?”
I’ve tried downloading some of the games that are on the Play Store for my kids, and by God those apps are cancerous. An ad every 30 seconds and the games are made purely with getting the players to become addicted in mind. Get off your fucking high horse Pichai.
There are some games that are genuinely aimed at being educational and fun, such as the Duck Duck Goose games. Or Starfall (from the website of the same name).
Oh yeah sure! The games from Baby Bus are alright, and there are some dino games which teach you programming. All very good, but as soon as an ad appears, 9 times out of 10 it’s one of those crappy, slapped together in a day, Unity games filled to the brim with ads itself. Showing characters from popular franchises (like Marvel, and most likely not paid for), and my kid goes “dad, I want that one”. Now I have Family Link installed so I have to allow everything he wants to download or pay for, but geez there’s so much junk on there.
I’d be sort of OK with the CEOs statement, if they did any sort of moderation on those predatory games aimed at kids. But alas.
Fun fact: You can sideload an adblocker that will legit block any ads in apps.
It’s called Blokada 5, and you have to download it from their website and sideload it because Google banned apps that use its functionality from the Play store.
So satisfying never seeing ads in apps.
Thanks for the tip!
So they argue that they want to protect users… from epic games? Like they are going to make a virus filled app? I kinda agree people need to be protected from fortnite, but its kind if a silly disingenuous argument.
protected from fortnite
We got a number one Victory Royale
Yeah, Fortnite, we 'bout to get down (get down)
Yeah, this is what I’m talking about.
I really can’t wait until we have a Linux-Mobile OS which supports android apps rather than having an entire fucking operating system running on java.
Running your OS on java is like building your house on quicksand.
Both GNOME & KDE already have builds you can do this with. E.g. Mobian, which uses a lot of the work Purism has done with PureOS, is working to make even default Debian work. You can install Android apps with Waydroid, and install it on Android devices like Pixel, OnePlus, in addition to Linux native devices.
It’s really not consumer ready though, I’ve tried desperately to use OnePlus and like devices as daily drivers but it’s just not there yet sadly. The more people that try tho the better off we will be
Java is only the languages some apps are programmed in. There is no JVM in android. And no, the OS does not run on Java.
I don’t think Android apps will be necessary on Linux mobile, at least GNOME is working on making their apps mobile-compatible
To transition from Android to Linux Mobile, It absolutely will be. Some apps are only on Android/iOS and some desktop linux desktop apps do not support a mobile layout even on mobile linux.
Right now, sure. Waydroid should enable that
sundar shut the fuck up
You know what I think I’m going to side load even harder
AOSP is open source. Better STFU, Sundar.
That article is… very confusingly written. Anybody got another source with a direct, full quote?
Yes, don’t sideload apps. It takes opportunity from us to spy on your usage patterns and enforce ads.
Edit: Oooh, also ignore this other report that we take 70% of your money
That doesn’t say they take 70% of our money. It means that Google spends only 30% of what they take in on the store on operating it, which is very different.
That guy’s got Liz-Truss-level understanding of economics
