what happens when Little Timmy spends $9000 for Nlartbux in a mobile game’s external store?
That’s why you don’t put your credit card info in a phone or tablet and let kids play with it.
I’m not entirely optimistic about this ruling, but we’ll see.
Apple had no reason NOT to give refunds and then use their weight to claw it back from the app developer.
But what happens when scammy apps use non-AppStore scammy stores to unlock features in an app?
In a perfect world it’s cheap and easy and reliable.
But it can also be a scammy shop that lures you into expensive subscriptions with no easy way to cancel them (eg. gym membership) and what happens when Little Timmy spends $9000 for Nlartbux in a mobile game’s external store?
Could go either way 🤷🏻♂️
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 5 days ago
lepinkainen@lemmy.world 5 days ago
And still people do it, they even give their own devices to kids with CC info pre-filled and no safeties on purchases.
Imagine how bad it is when the next fake ad game gets Timmy to subscribe to a $99/day gem pack…
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
That’s a failure of the parent. My 5 year old likes to do the “color by number” things on my phone (waiting at dr appts and whatnot), and even she understands not to click on the ads, or to at least hand it back to me if one comes up.
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
Greed.
We already have that on Android. We manage just fine.
Could be. Again, sideloading on Android is a thing already. Multiple alternative markets exist, and some shops are scammy as fuck. Google has already put protections in place to prevent sideloading potentially harmful apps, but the savvy user who knows how to bypass that should* know how to spot a harmful app.
“For your security” was never about security.