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. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♀️🤦

  • madcaesar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I’ve bee the using smartphones my entire life and I’ve fallen for this bullshit. I’ve instinctively pressed the first install button because my search was hyper specific, I just assumed it wouid be the first result.

    But, of course it was an ad. Fucking Google.