Ads upon ads upon ads
this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2023
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A single row of ads would be ok, but having this many plus an ad showing up first, where the search results should be... Oof
No it wouldn’t. Phones aren’t cheap.
The Android licence is free and the Play Store infrastructure has to support tens of millions of devices.
I'm not saying this is an acceptable level, but Samsung ain't putting a dollar toward Google running the store, in fact, they'd much prefer to run and maintain their own.
That's not true. Phone manufacturers need to pay if they want to include Google Play in their devices, it's not free. It can cost as much as $40 per device.
Thanks for the correction, I was unaware