Searching for exact app names in the Play Store - eviltoast

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. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♀️🤦

  • ladfrombrad 🇬🇧@lemdro.idM
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    4 months ago

    We use a fair few shared mobile phones at work and while it has WiFi / unlimited mobile data is used solely as an absence line number because some of my fellow colleagues don’t have home internet, actively disable their mobile data (because they use a SMS / Call package only), and really can’t get their head around “the nets”/Whatsapp and don’t, want to, either.

    Which I agree with to an extent since Whatsapp can suck my plums too. They exist and quite a few of them apparently.

    There is a bonus to this thou since I get to call them names because of their neanderthal ways…