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[-] mypasswordis1234@lemmy.world 52 points 6 months ago

Something went wrong. Please disable your blocker on AndroidPolice.com It looks like your blocker is attempting to interfere with the intended operation of this site. Support our writers and our copyrighted content by allowing our site to function as we intended. Please disable your blocker and add us to your allowlist.

It looks like they have no better way to monetize their site than to flood people with ads. So sad.

[-] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 30 points 6 months ago

Ublock origin on Firefox works fine for me

[-] stardust@lemmy.ca 26 points 6 months ago

Thank you Android Firefox.

[-] OneeChan@lemmy.world 18 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Yeah androidpolice quality really fell after the owner sold it unfortunately. Before it was a pretty great site for android news and Nexus (N6 owner here!) And pixel leaks but now is no better than a tabloid.

[-] Bangs42@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago

I've found Android Authority to be pretty decent. As a bonus, they have Rita!

[-] OneeChan@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

OMG I didnt know Rita went to AA!, I really missed her in-depth reviews and her writing style back on the og android police, Thanks for letting me know (シ_ _)シ

[-] Bangs42@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

That's actually how I found AA. AP finally got shitty enough for me to bail a few months ago, so I googled to see where Rita went.

[-] ByteMe@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

You can try 9to5google

[-] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 13 points 6 months ago

At least it didn’t tell you your phone had a virus. 🫠

[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 5 points 6 months ago

Would you rather have a pay wall?

[-] Pantherina@feddit.de 4 points 6 months ago

Use ublock origin and bypass paywalls clean, I dont get this

[-] fidodo@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Unfortunately I don't have a better idea

[-] Pantherina@feddit.de 25 points 6 months ago

And do they add the option to hide that gesture bar? Its useless, its for gestures just hide it.

[-] FrameXX@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 6 months ago

I agree. Most custom ROMs already have such option.

[-] cole@lemdro.id 1 points 6 months ago

how would you trigger circle to search?

[-] adlr@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

I have a Galaxy S24 with the gesture bar hidden. It lets me do circle to search by holding down where the gesture bar would be.

[-] GekkoState 3 points 6 months ago

The same way you trigger text selection or screenshot. Just swipe up and hold, and it would be the 3rd option to the other 2.

[-] Pantherina@feddit.de 1 points 6 months ago
[-] cole@lemdro.id 1 points 6 months ago

you press and hold the gesture bar to trigger circle to search

[-] Pantherina@feddit.de 5 points 6 months ago

Thats a Google Android only thing.

[-] cole@lemdro.id 1 points 6 months ago
[-] nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info 1 points 6 months ago

On srock android it's a vertical swipe up along the screen border

[-] ByteMe@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

You could just do it on a blank space I guess

[-] southernwolf@pawb.social 10 points 6 months ago

I know some people won't like this, but overall I think it is a cleaner look and also makes full use of the screen real estate available. Now it's not like... 100% ideal from a usage standpoint, but I think it's better than just having black bars are the top and bottom (or sides in landscape mode), as that just sorta defeats the point of an edge to edge display.

[-] madis@lemm.ee 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I don't think it is "forced", just the new default (unless explicitly disabled in a view), which is nice to see. Additionally, I didn't see much relevance to Play Store - it seemed to be a system-level thing.

[-] Melonpoly@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Finally! I hate the extra padding that usually doesn't follow the rest of the apps colour pallet and ends up looking half arsed.

[-] DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 months ago

That looks worse to me

this post was submitted on 25 Feb 2024
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