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20th April 2022, 04:09
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| [M] Reviewer  Join Date: May 2010 Location: Romania
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 |  Apple blessed apps which make you pay them to go away So much for app store protection The fruit and nutty Cargo cult Apple has been approving scam apps which make you pay them for a subscription before they let you shut down your phone. Since Apple takes a third of the profits of apps in return for a pledge to protect users from scam apps, one can only assume it is lying or it is making a tidy enough sum from them to allow them through. Principal software engineer at Red Hat, Edoardo Vacci discovered the first in the latest batch of scam apps. One, My Metronome, locks up and won’t allow users to quit using either the menu bar or keyboard shortcuts (it can be Force Quit though) until they agree to pay a $9.99 per month subscription. According to FlickType founder and scam app hunter Kosta Eleftheriou who spoke with The Verge, the developer behind My Metronome seems to have “experimented with various techniques over the years of preventing people from closing the paywall”. After Eleftheriou blew the whistle on the scam, Apple removed the app from its store. The developer though, Music Paradise is connected to another app development company called Groove Vibes that has created similar scam apps. In fact, according to the privacy policies of the companies, they’re registered at the same address and both mention Akadem GmbH. https://fudzilla.com/news/54718-appl...hem-to-go-away |
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