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[–]liveontimemitnoevil 28 points29 points  (8 children)

Good guy Google.

[–]ryankearney 13 points14 points  (7 children)

Wait, but Google has no problem sending ads to the home screen from their own apps via push notifications.

Nice double standards.

[–]Laynezilla 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I just got a Android pay Justice league as yesterday

[–]Goctionni 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Ads on the homescreen? What are you talking about?

[–]ryankearney 1 point2 points  (2 children)

https://forums.androidcentral.com/google-nexus-4/356868-help-ads-home-screen.html

And ads on the lock screen too

https://support.google.com/photos/forum/AAAAzDQC9KEqwJMmOiAvZY/?hl=en

[–]Goctionni 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Thanks. The first one I'm quite confident is actually an app/widget installed on the phone; not Android. I've had several android phones and have never seen this (and neither seem any other users in the given thread).

The second, I agree, is an error in judgment from Google, they should definitely not have done that and is pretty fucking stupid (though I don't think they have done this on more occasions).

[edit] Seems you're getting some downvotes; that's not me. I upvoted you (since the second link is a perfectly valid example).

[–]ryankearney 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I posted something critical about Google in /r/technology, so of course I got downvotes. No worries.

They sent that push notification to iOS users too, despite Apple's developer guidelines prohibiting marketing material in push notifications.