Android games without in app purchases and ads
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I created this crawling the app store and filtering by not using IAP, not using ads, ratings >= 4.5, and at least 1000 reviews (because there is a lot of games with a single 5 star review that are unplayable)
If anybody noticed I did it once a few years ago, but the dataset I used isn't available anymore, so I had to do my own thing this time, and it doesn't have all the data I had before. But that previous attempt was too polluted with games that were unplayable with their ads, so it was kinda useless. The crawler I'm using now has the information about ads, it is a component I found on github
Sources:
Script to run the crawler continually (I hit google once each 5s): https://github.com/machado2/playstorecrawler
It's interface: https://github.com/machado2/noiap
The result so far:
https://noiap.fbmac.net
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@sockpuppet7 the very first game on your list requires a purchase on external website every time you play it (for a good reason but still). Off to a good start!
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@Gustav sorry for that, it's all automated, and I tried to filter out things with the word "account" on the description. Don't give this list any more trust you would give to an advertisement at a random site
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@sockpuppet7 said in Android games without in app purchases and ads:
@Gustav sorry for that, it's all automated, and I tried to filter out things with the word "account" on the description. Don't give this list any more trust you would give to an AD at a random site
If you're trusting Active Directory domains at a random site, you're beyond our ability to help here
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@izzion fixed that to advertisement, in case you're not
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@sockpuppet7 said in Android games without in app purchases and ads:
@izzion fixed that to advertisement, in case you're not
This is
SpartaWTDWTF. Of course I'm
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@izzion said in Android games without in app purchases and ads:
@sockpuppet7 said in Android games without in app purchases and ads:
@Gustav sorry for that, it's all automated, and I tried to filter out things with the word "account" on the description. Don't give this list any more trust you would give to an AD at a random site
If you're trusting Active Directory domains at a random site, you're beyond our ability to help here
Active Directory Federation Services, distributed edition!
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@sockpuppet7 said in Android games without in app purchases and ads:
The result so far:
https://noiap.fbmac.netWould it be too much to ask for a readable color scheme? This is what the app description look like for me:
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@PotatoEngineer dark mode detected!
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@Tsaukpaetra just waiting for someone to hook up ADFS to Mastodon…
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@Arantor said in Android games without in app purchases and ads:
hook up ADFS to Mastodon
That seems like something that belongs in the bad ideas thread.
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@Arantor
I heard you liked federation so I put federation in your federation!
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@Gustav said in Android games without in app purchases and ads:
dark mode detected!
Dunno, I'm not in dark mode myself and experience similar.
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@Luhmann said in Android games without in app purchases and ads:
@Arantor
I heard you liked federation so I put federation in your federation!Germany joining EU.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Android games without in app purchases and ads:
@Gustav said in Android games without in app purchases and ads:
dark mode detected!
Dunno, I'm not in dark mode myself and experience similar.
Well, there must be another reason why your browser defaults to white instead of black. Have you tried wiping your browser settings and starting over?
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@Gustav said in Android games without in app purchases and ads:
Germany
joiningco-founding EU.I also know Russia is a federation, though I'm not sure whether the USSR was one.
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@PleegWat what do you think U stands for?
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@Gustav said in Android games without in app purchases and ads:
wiping your browser settings
How about using styles that make sense regardless of "defaults"?
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@Tsaukpaetra how about using defaults that make sense regardless of "styles"?
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@Tsaukpaetra yeah, fuck them defaults, fuck them hard, or something.
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@Arantor said in Android games without in app purchases and ads:
@Tsaukpaetra yeah, fuck them defaults, fuck them hard, or something.
Oh baby oh baby
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@PleegWat said in Android games without in app purchases and ads:
@Gustav said in Android games without in app purchases and ads:
Germany
joiningco-founding EU.I also know Russia is a federation, though I'm not sure whether the USSR was one.
USSR was (technically) a Union, but within it Russia itself was SFSR - a federative republic consisting of many
autonomous republics that either already existed as regions (oblast) or were created after Lenin's power-grab. Many of the administrative divisions still exist today, too.
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@Applied-Mediocrity matryoshka is a political metaphor.
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@Gustav said in Android games without in app purchases and ads:
@Applied-Mediocrity matryoshka is a political metaphor.
You're a political metaphor.
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@sockpuppet7 you don't have
Hoard Lord, I guess the dev took it down or started charging for it.
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@Gribnit said in Android games without in app purchases and ads:
Hoard Lord
That crawler didn't get the entire play store, I used the "similar games" thing to get the ids for searching more apps, but it got stuck after reading 159085 games
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@PotatoEngineer said in Android games without in app purchases and ads:
Would it be too much to ask for a readable color scheme? This is what the app description look like for me:
I fixed the dark mode, and changed the filter criteria to show more stuff. I probably should implement a way to downvote the obviously bad entries, but
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@sockpuppet7 said in Android games without in app purchases and ads:
@PotatoEngineer said in Android games without in app purchases and ads:
Would it be too much to ask for a readable color scheme? This is what the app description look like for me:
I fixed the dark mode, and changed the filter criteria to show more stuff. I probably should implement a way to downvote the obviously bad entries, but
Yay, it's readable!
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@sockpuppet7 said in Android games without in app purchases and ads:
the "similar games" thing
It's sad somewhat that there is no simple "just get me the game list, flat out, with these tags"
