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The problem is I don't have an old phone. But yeah I eventually figured that out for a game that I couldn't find online. So what I did was created an emulator on my computer with an old version of Android and logged into my account on that.

Fuck google. I just want to be able to play minit on my phone, but no, Google says it's not good enough for me because they haven't updated the app in a while. You know, like most games. Of course they haven't updated the app, the game is finished, they've moved on from it.

Maybe the whole abandonware thing applies to regular apps, but in my experience most games without microtransactions get updated for a bit when they're released and then never again. Because there's no reason to update your game once you've fixed all the bugs, unless you're not adding new content.

I cannot tell you the number of times I've thought about a game that I used to like and looking for it on the Play Store, only to find out it's been taken down and I have to go for an hour long search through sketchy sites to find it. It's fine if you only play new games, but from my experience, the majority of old games are just not available, unless they're made by a studio that's still big enough to keep up with the requirements. For no good reason.

I would fully understand having a warning for old apps. They could even hide them from recommendations. But if I want to install an "abandoned" app, I should be able to.

I'm 21, but people talk about winamp online all the time so I'm pretty familiar

Well then obviously if you use libraries, your code is too complicated

Ok but they do respect it, we know that https://searchengineland.com/microsoft-confirms-reddit-blocked-bing-search-444385

They even have a page telling you how to use it https://blogs.bing.com/webmaster/June-2008/Robots-Exclusion-Protocol-joining-together-to-pro/

Yeah but it stops bing and a bunch of AI scrapers that want to act like they're following the rules

I don't think they actually block malicious bots, the change they've made is just to the robots.txt, they don't have to do anything.

Right, so similar to locks? Usually can be easily bypassed if you know how, but it at least filters out the people who aren't determined enough to put in the effort.

I mean, I would've said the same about the mobile apps, but here we are.

Yeah for tech stuff stack exchange is the way to go. But if I'm looking for info on non-tech stuff, there's not really a site that I know of that has a bunch of general user submitted q&a. There's quora, but that's absolutely horrible.

Also even with stack exchange, the rules are a bit more strict there, low effort posts are uncommon which can mean you can't find some stuff there. Although usually there's some other forum you can find your answer on.

Right, but having a centralised search index thingy is better than none at all. Maybe there could be something where it's a joint effort from admins from many of the biggest servers, idk if that would work.