Google Play store url hijack

Android Android Development
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I usually have the “more games” links in my apps sent to my developer account’s Google Play app store. In the past few days, I noticed that the traffic has been hijacked and redirected to a Google Play top list page. Did anyone notice the same?

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Mine are working fine :s

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Anybody else?

4

I’m seeing same thing with my more games link! I use a link like this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=XdebugX

It says: “Apps by XdebugX” on the page, but is showing lots of apps from other developers! It even doesn’t show all of my apps anymore!

5

I saw the same bug… even on official pages it says that it should works fine… but it does not

6

Yep something is broken there, ugg

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Have the same things. All my games contain a link like this:
market://search?q=pub:Warlock+Studio
and few days ago it starts show wrong apps.
Yesterday I tried the link like this
market://search?q=pub:“Warlock Studio”
and it worked fine. I update the game. But now I see it doesn’t work again and don’t show my games, but show alot of not my games.
It’s very bad. :frowning:

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In my case it shows my games and other games below mine. At least mine are on top.

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Well, yes I think a little changes are talking place ! Confirmed it mine has also been changed … :slight_smile:

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Confirm. It show other app not mine. Ugly bug

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If use search request without “pub” it works.
i.e. like this:
market://search?q=“Warlock Studio”

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Well, so it means that this thing is a bug nothing else than that… ! :slight_smile:

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Better yet, use market://search?q=“warlockstudio” without the space. This will prevent Google from listing the other games that are not yours.

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Yes, what I wrote above is not working now. But it worked at the time I post it here.
Your method is works fine… works right now, (as worked my few days ago), but I don’t know will it work tomorrow.
So, the best way as I see - is open my web site with only my games and don’t use Google Market search query anymore.

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That links works fine for me , shows 12 of your apps…

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Seems like Google fixed it!
Now all requests works fine

market://search?q=“Warlock Studio”
market://search?q=pub:“Warlock Studio”