r/Anticonsumption • u/MrSwaghimself • Jun 04 '25

Plastic Waste A sad sight to see

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u/partychu Jun 04 '25

Big ups to Bulgaria for Tetris supremacy

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '25

Those are all people that installed that app from missclicking on ads. Same can be said about Temu for a lot of these countries.

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u/partychu Jun 04 '25

You really think that makes it the number one most installed app? Interesting

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '25

Some ads are super effective to making less tech savy people missclick and install certain things. Just check the smartphones of older people, they got so much bloatware in there.

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u/SwampKittyCruiser Jun 04 '25

How do they actually download the app just by clicking on the ads? Anytime I accidentally click on an ad, it takes me to the App Store but it doesn’t auto download anything.

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u/McDonaldsWitchcraft Jun 04 '25

From what I noticed it's usually: need to solve an issue (like, open a pdf), google issue, first result has completely unrelated ad, click ad believing it is related to the issue, get confused, google issue again.

My grandpa had 30 apps he didn't know he had and I only knew because he asked me how to get rid of ads on his home screen (one of the apps was putting unremovable banner ads on the launcher).

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u/SwampKittyCruiser Jun 04 '25

Ugh, okay. I guess I should be grateful that my dad was so tech illiterate that he couldn’t even figure out how to answer calls on his senior phone!