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Google Play Store showed my child an ad of a bloody body on a bed for a murder mystery game. The game was rated 18+ and the account had my daughter’s correct si

Google Play Store showed my child an ad of a bloody body on a bed for a murder mystery game. The game was rated 18+ and the account had my daughter’s correct single digit age. I reported the ad and a week later it was still there. I switched to Apple.

uncletammy 1mo ago
How did that work out for you? Safer? What was the experience switching, for you and for your kid?
- ryanjshaw 1mo ago
  Haven’t seen any bloody bodies advertised to my child… yet.
  - joquarky 1mo ago
    [flagged]
themaninthedark 1mo ago
Listen, we need you to verify your identity in order for us to not serve these ads to your kids. It's very important that you do this.
Spooky23 1mo ago
Yet you can’t run Linux on a Chromebook with a minor child user.
- stephenbez 1mo ago
  What do you mean? You can use Linux on a Chromebook just fine if the user is an adult but if the user is a child there is some Chromebook restriction?
smugma 1mo ago
Unfortunately, I’ve seen MA ads for kids games on iPhone as well. Possibly not as bad but not great. It seems to be better than it was two years ago.
lostlogin 1mo ago
> I switched to Apple. Sadly, the dirty money is luring them in too.
kotaKat 1mo ago
Apple is equally pointless. They don't remove apps like Facebook or Twitter for displaying CSAM, but apparently ganked Telegram at the first single report of an extortionist trying to remove a public Telegram group because they posted CSAM in it. https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/telegram-says-app-restored-apples-app-store-2026-08-04/ https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/telegram-sa... It's only okay when the American companies get away with CSAM.
remuskaos 1mo ago
The play store is pretty bad. About half the time I search for an app, BY NAME, without any way to confuse it with another app, the top result is a scam or copy cat, or adware. And always, without fail, they are paid-for ads instead of real search results. How can it still be somehow advantageous to trick your users into installing an app they clearly don't want. I wish there was a real alternative to the play store. F Droid comes close and can even auto update now (never understood why that didn't work on the past), but most apps I want or need like banking, health insurance etc aren't on F Droid.
- tremon 1mo ago
  > never understood why that didn't work on the past AIUI, Android simply didn't support it. The original way for apps to install other apps was via ACTION_INSTALL_PACKAGE, which is a user-visible action. The InstallPackage API did not support silent updates until sdk version 31: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/pm/PackageInstaller.SessionParams#USER_ACTION_NOT_REQUIRED https://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/pm/P...

uncletammy 1mo ago

How did that work out for you? Safer? What was the experience switching, for you and for your kid?

ryanjshaw 1mo ago
Haven’t seen any bloody bodies advertised to my child… yet.
- joquarky 1mo ago
  [flagged]

themaninthedark 1mo ago

Listen, we need you to verify your identity in order for us to not serve these ads to your kids. It's very important that you do this.

Spooky23 1mo ago

Yet you can’t run Linux on a Chromebook with a minor child user.

stephenbez 1mo ago
What do you mean? You can use Linux on a Chromebook just fine if the user is an adult but if the user is a child there is some Chromebook restriction?

smugma 1mo ago

Unfortunately, I’ve seen MA ads for kids games on iPhone as well. Possibly not as bad but not great. It seems to be better than it was two years ago.

lostlogin 1mo ago

> I switched to Apple. Sadly, the dirty money is luring them in too.

kotaKat 1mo ago

Apple is equally pointless. They don't remove apps like Facebook or Twitter for displaying CSAM, but apparently ganked Telegram at the first single report of an extortionist trying to remove a public Telegram group because they posted CSAM in it. https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/telegram-says-app-restored-apples-app-store-2026-08-04/ https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/telegram-sa... It's only okay when the American companies get away with CSAM.

remuskaos 1mo ago

The play store is pretty bad. About half the time I search for an app, BY NAME, without any way to confuse it with another app, the top result is a scam or copy cat, or adware. And always, without fail, they are paid-for ads instead of real search results. How can it still be somehow advantageous to trick your users into installing an app they clearly don't want. I wish there was a real alternative to the play store. F Droid comes close and can even auto update now (never understood why that didn't work on the past), but most apps I want or need like banking, health insurance etc aren't on F Droid.

tremon 1mo ago
> never understood why that didn't work on the past AIUI, Android simply didn't support it. The original way for apps to install other apps was via ACTION_INSTALL_PACKAGE, which is a user-visible action. The InstallPackage API did not support silent updates until sdk version 31: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/pm/PackageInstaller.SessionParams#USER_ACTION_NOT_REQUIRED https://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/pm/P...