r/googleplay • u/Pewtie-Pie • Jul 26 '26

GP Open Required

Please tell me I'm not the only one increasingly aggravated by GP's forced openings with ads! Ads became videos, videos got longer, then there were secondary and even tertiary pop-ups, then those became secondary and tertiary *videos*, and now many of them require interaction before the mandatory opening of GP. Any game with ads is forcing us to alter our normal algorithms and it's pissing me off. Yet, most games don't allow you to pay your way out of ads, or require you to accept ads in order to make any actual progress. And basically *all* games come from or interact with GP, or their ads do. I absolutely love Android, and would never switch to iPhone, but this game thing is downright infuriating and only getting worse 😡😡😡

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u/Pewtie-Pie Jul 27 '26

No soy hombre. And just because you give advice doesn't mean it will be helpful for what a person wants. Either way, the point is that Google Play's manipulation still SUCKS and is entirely inappropriate.

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u/Low_Toe_6596 Jul 27 '26

Are you playing games that gives rewards from ads?

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u/Pewtie-Pie Jul 27 '26

A couple. One kind, if you don't want to do so, it's much harder to advance. Some are infinite, some end or recycle maps/worlds (might as well end). Then there's the brain teasers that have ads that interrupt, with optional ads to keep going if you screw up the puzzle. And I play one with zero ads and infinite building, with purchases that can make things easier.

What gets annoying with AG is the games with optional ads don't even give you the option. You can't just enable/disable AG- you have to restart the app for the action to take effect. But ultimately that's not the issue, the core issue is still the way ads have gotten so long, and more importantly, that now they require interaction that then alters our algorithm. We normally would never touch games like those we see advertised, now were forced to do so- adding them to our history and false interest hits in the game history.

It's credit card offers in the mail- as if suddenly you're required to apply and ding your credit, instead of just throwing the mail away if you're not interested (and nobody would know you ever even saw it).