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I asked a relative to look for RealVNC on the Play Store and install it. Once they were done, I asked them to fulfill a basic task inside RealVNC and they were really confused by my instructions. I took a look at their phone, lo and behold, they had installed a different app. I asked them to repeat the install procedure while I watched. They punched in "realvnc" in the search box, two identically formatted results appeared. Their finger instinctively clicked the Install button on the top result. It was an ad. πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈπŸ€¦β€β™€οΈπŸ€¦

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[–] snooggums@midwest.social 70 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

No, fuck that. The ads being listed before rhe first result are intended to cause people to misclick. That isn't all on the user.

Don't excuse predatory business practices.

[–] Ilandar@aussie.zone 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Are you illiterate? My very next sentence was:

However, the Play Store is undoubtedly trash and anti-consumer which is why I primarily use the Aurora Store even on non-deGoogled phones.

[–] snooggums@midwest.social 24 points 2 months ago (2 children)

If the practices are predatory, blaming the user is excusing the predatory practices. Bragging about how you use something else in that context is doubling down on blaming the user instead of the practices.

So no, I am not illiterate. You ahould have just left off the sentence blaming the victim.

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

is doubling down on blaming the user instead of the practices

They blamed both, though.

[–] snooggums@midwest.social 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Blaming a user for falling for malicious practices designed by multibillion dollars companies is like blaming the victim of a hit and run. "It was their fault for using the crosswalk, but the driver was also wrong for not stopping."

Both sides!

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, no one should have to look at what they're doing to stop themselves from making mistakes! Everyone should be able to blindly make decisions and they should always be correct!

[–] snooggums@midwest.social 3 points 2 months ago

Victims just bring it on themselves!

[–] Ilandar@aussie.zone 0 points 2 months ago

However, the Play Store is undoubtedly trash and anti-consumer