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megatoaster | 4 years ago

Searching 'no ads' seemingly won't query that tag, seemingly.

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drusepth|4 years ago

Seems pretty trivial to eventually add, compared to trying to enforce correctness on results from user-provided tags in titles.

I'm a little surprised you can't search for "no ads" apps outside of e.g. Pass listings, but I'm really glad they're not defaulting to just a title text search and cluttered listings of Farming Simulator [NO ADS] [NO IAPS] [NO REFERRALS] [NO TIMEWAITS] [NO DLC].

tyingq|4 years ago

It's not searchable for a reason. Ad free apps don't generate revenue for Google. So devs added it to the title. Google is now closing that loophole.

throwaway2048|4 years ago

its trivial to add, yet hasn't been added in almost 15 years, it is very much a title text search and nothing about this move indicates otherwise.

there is no economic interest from google to make ad free apps actually findable, and no chance somebody making a better play store is going to usurp their position.