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. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♀️🤦

  • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.eeEnglish
    122·
    3 months ago

    Just as a PSA:
    For things only on PlayStore use Aurora Store or other apk downloaders like APKMirror/APKPure.

    For everything else ofc Droid-ify, Obtanium, F-Droid/G-Droid, Neo Store, Aurora Droid, etc.

    • burned_das_brotEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      Do you trust APKMirror and APKPure? I always thought they were a bit shady.

      • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        I mean, not really but Androids are fairly safe devices.
        Why I use them (not often) however is that Play Store doesn’t seem that much controlled.