#GOOGLE PLAY STORE

[yourfaveisworsethanaworm]

whatsapp from app store is worse than a worm!

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Alex Kaplan at MMFA:

Google and Apple’s app stores have been hosting an app for Scored, a message board site dedicated to hosting far-right forum TheDonald — which was previously banned on Reddit and rebranded as “patriots.win” after January 6 — and other far-right forums pushing extremism and conspiracy theories. The site, which researchers have called “an alternative Reddit platform that shelter[s] banned fringe communities,” is supposedly owned by the lead moderator of TheDonald who apparently “made the site” for the forum.

TheDonald originally began on Reddit as “r/The_Donald,” with the subreddit dedicated to supporting Donald Trump during his 2016 presidential campaign and subsequent presidency. It was known for spreading and promoting far-right misinformation, conspiracy theories, far-right campaigns, bigotry, white nationalism and white nationalist events, and calls for violence that violated Reddit’s rules. Reddit officially banned r/The_Donald in 2020 but many of the subreddit’s users had already moved to another site, known at the time as “TheDonald.win,” which became the home of what was called the “.win” communities. After the January 6 insurrection, which TheDonald was used to help coordinate, “TheDonald.win” rebranded as “patriots.win.”

In early 2022, an administrator on the “.win” communities’ central hub site announced that “going forward, we will be known as Scored” instead of .win. “Doggos,” who is TheDonald’s apparent lead moderator and seemingly “made the site” for the forum, claimed on the message board that “I own Scored,” and advertised donations to Scored as “supporting this community’s existence.” The announcement on the communities’ central hub site also noted that “in the short term, our focus is on … working on our Android and iOS apps.” Media Matters has now found that since at least 2022, both the Google and Apple app stores have carried “Scored Communities.” The app leads users to numerous far-right forums, including TheDonald, which has continued to push extremism, rampant antisemitism, and racism after being banned from Reddit, as well as calls to violence. (Doggos has said that TheDonald on the app has “a little bit more content-level censorship due to app store policy.”)

Google App Store and Apple App Store are hosting an App called Scored to host far-right forums that were banned from Reddit, such as Patriots[.]win (formerly r/The_Donald).

[atmosphericradar]

I am not happy that very few of the apps on my phone make proper use of the changelog feature. When a developer chooses to write a changelog that says: "Bug fixes and performance improvements" instead of actually explaining their work, it comes across to me as lazy and condescending do their userbase. Because I know that internally, the developers are keeping detailed records through Git messages. It begs the question: "Are we not smart or worthy enough to know what is going on inside the programs we permit onto our devices?"

But I think something less sinister, and more depressing, is driving this trend. It's not that the devs are sneering at you, or (necessarily) that they're hiding predatory updates from you, or even that the developers are exceptionally lazy.

I think that software companies only care about new features, and simply do not value bug fixing and maintenance. As an organization, most of these dev teams will prioritize new features and will assume that their users do as well. The most profitable companies want to constantly optimize for efficiency. It might be considered a waste of employee hours to have even one PM look through the Git logs, find all of the little bugs, and create a copy-pasted detailed changelog bespoke for each update release on the Google Play Store.

[roguerebels]

Star Wars Hunters is Rad and Free-to-Play!

Star Wars Hunters is finally here and free-to-play! Here's why you should check it out! #StarWarsHunters #StarWarsVideoGames #NintendoSwitch

Star Wars Hunters is finally here!! Star Wars Hunters is a free-to-play arena combat video game available on the Nintendo Switch, Ios, and Android devices! Hunters released on June 4th, 2024 and we have enjoyed it ever since! So are you thinking about trying it? Well, it’s free so there’s no reason not to! There are in-game purchases and lots of fun characters and cosmetics but you can ignore…

[irregodless]

my mom gave me some cards that she was given by someone who doesnt want them

whats worth buying on the google play store

[skellybonesandtrees]

Anyone ever rented movies on YouTube or Google store? Do you get to download or does it buffer a lot?

[missmelliemel]

But y'all gotta download your games through Mistplay and open Mistplay to launch the games you play in order to get your rewards... I've already cashed out $30 to my PayPal using Mistplay 😁 here's the screenshot too just so y'all can see

[dutifullyraddeer]

Google Play Store can't login by opening Settings, click Apps > Manage apps > App info and click "Force stop" to stop the app

[metgoose702]

"Sold Out." Don't you hate it when this happens?

[aromantisk-fagforening]

ok genuine question: how the fuck do I rate things on the Google play store??? I can't find any button or any option in the meatball menu or anything.

also how do I give feedback on early access stuff? they're like "give feedback" but there's nowhere to do that??

[minasesouya]

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アンドロイドアプリ　キャラクタービューアー「ローラ・セプテンバー」の紹介動画 この動画を撮影するために自作したアプリを(アンドロイド)スマホ上でも稼働するようにしてGooglePlayStoreグーグルプレイストアで公開しました(無料)。お楽しみ下さい。 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.TrinityGrail.characterViewer_lolaAndCar私のＨＰの中の頁で、ブラウザ上でも同じアプリを遊べます。 カメラを操作してキャラクタを眺めることができます。 https://minase-souya.sakura.ne.jp/webGL_carAndLora/index.html ========================== Android app "Character viewer: Lola September" demo reel An android app to look around the 3d model of my original character Lola September is released on Google play store. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.TrinityGrail.characterViewer_lolaAndCarThe same app is playable on my website. https://minase-souya.sakura.ne.jp/webGL_carAndLora/index.html

[gamegeeksnews]

Mobile Game “taleplAI” is Available Now on Google Play:

Play and create anything from a D&D campaign, a murder mystery, a horror story, a rom-com, a treasure hunt, and more. Your imagination is the limit!

Game Geeks News is proud to bring you a fantastic new game available to download free from the Google Play Store. Tiny Ant Games have recently launched taleplAI (pronounced Taleplay) a platform where users can play, create and share AI-powered games, worlds & stories.

Users are able to freely chat with these characters, locations, and items and experiment with your stories in a new unique way, all powered by AI.

The game already has a set of games of different themes: fantasy RPG, murder mystery, horror & more. There’s even a game where you collect smart kitties. It’s very easy, you simply create the characters, locations, and items you wish to use for your story and select how you wish their AIs to behave. You can upload your own images or use our catalog of images. Take a picture of anything, upload it, and make it a smart character/location/item in your game or story.

Download now from the Google Play Store

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[dragon-snoots-a-boopin]

Reelshort Is A Stupid Idea For A Streaming Service that Exists.

Sometimes I like to post about just really stupid shit I come across and this is definitely one of them. This is about an streaming service app that I learned about the existence of from three separate YouTube videos.

The streaming service app is one called ReelShort. This one has "shows" and "movies" on it that seem to be in the shitty romance genre. You got titles like "The Double Life Of My Billonaire Husband", "Fatal Temptation: Between Two Alphas", "Goodbye My CEO", "Fated To My Forbidden Alpha", "My Gorgeous Wife Is An Ex-Convict" and also "My Husband Killed Me, Then I Won The Mega Ball".

Now, aside from this streaming services' so called shows and movies having the dumbest titles ever, the way that this service works is even dumber. All of these so called shows and movies will be broken down into a number of episodes. For example from one of the videos I watched on this, the so called movie "My Husband Killed Me, Then I Won the Mega Ball" is composed of 52 episodes and each of these episodes are between 60 and 90 seconds in length.

Now, the problem that has come up with this streaming service basically comes down to two things. See, when you decide to start one of their so called movies, you can watch the first episode for free. But, if you decide to keep watching, you then have to watched ads before each episode to unlock said next episode and you have to watch anywhere between 15 to 20 ads to unlock a single episode. What makes things even better is that, from the Google Play Store reviews for the app, you can only unlock up to 20 episodes per day just by watching ads. So, given all that, it would take someone three days just to finish watching "My Husband Killed Me. Then I Won The Mega Ball" and nobody wants to spend three days on something they should be able to just watch once and be done with it.

Also, from reading the reviews for this app on the Google Play Store, I've learned that you can just buy coins and use those to unlock an given next episode and I also learned that the "free" method of just watching ads to unlock episodes doesn't actually work when you hit the home stretch of episodes because that is when the app will force you to play for those last episodes which is really stupid. Some of the reviews even said as much as $5 an episode which is insane to pay for something that is 60-90 seconds long.

I really don't see the point of a streaming service app like this. The cherry on top to all this stupidity is that the creators of this app send the same copy and pasted response to people who leave one and two star reviews on the app. They'll say that you only have to watch 15 to 20 ads to unlock an episode and that the ads are only 5 to 30 seconds long and like, that's still really insane that they think that watching 15 to 20 ads for 19 episodes isn't all that much. Then they'll go through a numbered list of ways to get a "free bonus" by doing a daily check in, watching ads every day and watching ads to unlock episode without paying and like numbers two and three sound pretty much the same. The end their message with the most bait sounding sentence where they say that if you rate the app better it'll give the team more motivation and that really just sounds backwards to me. I feel like if an app I created I really low rating I would take that as motivation to make the app better. I really don't understand how this app has a four star rating on the Google Play Store with an actual decent number of five star reviews. I have to believe that the creators bought a bunch of bot accounts of five star reviews.

[eternalomen]

They knew what they were doing here and I love it.

This is why I joined.