[musicale]

It's also a lousy user experience since the bogus ad app shows up at the top of the page and eats up screen space, especially on a phone.

> People are lazy and download the first result a lot of the time.

If people need something right away, they're unlikely to want to spend time evaluating a bunch of alternatives.

[jackjeff]

It’s just made the App Store unusable. Even exact name search is fraught with peril.

I just Google things instead now.

I feel like this is what is going to happen for every product Apple will infest with ads.

[nullwarp]

It's good to know I'm not the only one who finds the app store literally insufferable. like you have one option, their store, and now even their store you have to be careful because the ads are so subtle.

[musicale]

> exact name search is fraught with peril

precisely

> I just Google things instead now.

Google search results seem to have the same problem where actual results get pushed below the fold by ads.