cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17702667
Google is putting the clamp on low-effort apps in the Play Store. Apps that don’t offer basic functionality or quality may be removed.
Frequently unresponsive or very unstable apps shouldn’t have been in the Play store in the 1st place.
Anyway, to the Play store’s credit, I downloaded many bank apps and I never got a fake bank app.
So we will be having an annual purge from now on?
Thing is, there actually are some good basic apps out there. Things like pomodoro timers with no ads or tracking. Super basic but useful, and hard yobfind because they get buried below other ‘slick’ versions stuffed with ads and trackers.
Not only that, it’s outright against the rules to “market” on the playstore as ad-free
Maybe Google could institute a better search function, like by Price/Free, Date, Category, etc. They are a Search Engine, maybe activate that on your scammy Play Store.
Wait, so we can’t update the Google Play Storage anymore, because it’s updated through itself and will be purged?
