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by IanCal 2001 days ago
And there's always this kind of response. They didn't say the service was fine, they just provided a simple workaround which doesn't require forcing a change to Google's algorithm. Hoping they don't help with this seems odd.

So, to counter, I'm glad that they did say this as it regularly annoys me too.

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It's indeed a useful tip - and no offense to the GP - but this kind of reply always feels like the tech support equivalent of a mandatory arbitration clause: like an attempt to solve an issue individually with each person reporting it instead of giving a systemic solution that would benefit anyone. The blame is shifted from devs providing a good service to individual users not knowing the latest workaround.
Most probably the devs know how to do it but specs written by someone else told them to obfuscate useful functionality.