P.S. If you do download the game via an ad, it changes nothing in this process. You still have to watch the rest of the ad.

And they won't stop advertising the game to you either. In fact they'll probably do it more because you showed interest.

So they get more desperate and go deeper into these stupid tactics.

That's how we got here.

Also Google wants it this way. The trickery keeps you unsatisfied and always looking for a new game (and therefore more likely to click an ad).

And low quality users don't stick around for long and so aren't worth much to games makers.

People who clicked accidentally on an ad are unlikely to buy the premium pass that "removes all in-app ads" (but only removes a fraction of them in reality).

Every step of the way is trickery.

They don't try to get you to *want to* download the game they have actually made. They rely on wearing you down and/or accidental clicks.

They are going for quantity, not quality users.

6) You can click out of this static ad page by pressing the X again.

There may be a timer before you can press the X, and it may or may not take you to the Google Play page again.

This whole process repeats every 90 seconds on average.

Note: The overall rating on Google Play also does not represent actual reviews.

Games showing a perfect 5 stars in Google Play often (impossibly) have many 1 star reviews.

5) You return to your game from Google Play, but there is more of the ad. Usually a static image which also shows how many stars the game gets on Google Play.

This number of stars shown here is not linked to Google Play, and will not be the same as what you see on the games page in Google Play.

4) To return to your game from Google Play in step 3 (or 2) you have to press back using your phones functionality (usually twice).

However, if you press back within Google Play (in the top left) then you go to Google Plays homepage. You cannot return to your game this way.

(After returning to the ad from step 2 if you tapped at the wrong point...)

3) When the timer says so, you can press the X to close the ad. This does not close the ad - it takes you to Google Play.

Sometimes it says "Google Play" instead of X, giving you no way of knowing how to exit the ad.

2) Many ads are playable demos. These ads will generally bear little relation to the game being advertised.

Some ads stop being playable suddenly, and take you to Google Play on a random tap.

Some ads pretend to be playable and do this on your 1st tap. These two types of ads are indistinguishable.

I personally always enjoy adding the context to reports in December: "less will get done this month because everyone has mentally checked out."

If AI was as good as they pretend, it could create images/videos that were both realistic and easily verifiable as AI

While Musk mentions "hard men" it's a good time to remember that he's afraid of Mark Zuckerberg.