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Scammed by the top result for 'Bitcoin wallet' in Apple App Store

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Re: Scammed by the top result for 'Bitcoin wallet' in Apple App Store

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Post by secsubsc »

I am in India and I can see the app on top spot (marked as Ad) when I search for Bitcoin Wallet.

My theory is, they paid for an Ad in a specific region and hence it started showing on top, people started downloading in that region, and that boosted the overall ranking for that app and hence people from other regions are seeing it among top results, even though its not an Ad there. Irrespective of the rating or freshness of the app, since it is getting downloaded in one region (because it is an Ad there), automatically it goes to top in other regions.

This trick can be used by other apps also, considering it would be cheapter to buy the top Ad spot in India and then it organically rises to the top.

Re: Scammed by the top result for 'Bitcoin wallet' in Apple App Store

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Post by DoodahMan »

openthc wrote: post #3

I thought the Apple platform had the best consumer experience and that's why folk love it -- it "just works" -- cause they keep the riff-raff out of their gated community. Perhaps they let this one slip through because their team was too busy dragging out the review process for our cannabis compliance application, they can only afford so many reviewers after all. We wouldn't want children accidentally getting their h…

fwiw i hope yall get approved. thank you & take care.

Re: Scammed by the top result for 'Bitcoin wallet' in Apple App Store

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Post by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK »

crossroadsguy wrote: post #97
blibble wrote: post #8

I don't think I've ever searched for something on the app store and not got a scam as the first result just tried it - my bank? I get crypto.com - train company app? knockoff app that charges extra fees - my broker? CFD gambling app - official government app for paying my tax? intuit product I dare to think how many people this lures in scammy ads plastered everywhere is what I'd expect from Google products not for t…

On the contrary, as someone who has worked with both platforms as a developer, this is my personal opinion: - Around a lot of things software, including the Play Store, Google’s safety and security, for all its ads, tracking and shenanigans, are real, largely verifiable, discussed openly, and pretty fucking robust (not to mention, most of it are actually open). - Apple’s? Smoke and mirrors! Essentially some vague shi…

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Re: Scammed by the top result for 'Bitcoin wallet' in Apple App Store

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Post by schappim »

Don't worry, everyone. Apple can now afford to hire some app store reviewers by using the revenue from its new "Core Technology Fee." This fee requires developers to pay Apple €0.50 for every first annual installation exceeding a threshold of 1 million for apps distributed outside the App Store.

Re: Scammed by the top result for 'Bitcoin wallet' in Apple App Store

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Post by yunwal »

kibwen wrote: post #93
gumby wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am still surprised that when I search for a specific app (as you did for your bank) I still see junk ads before the real app shows up. Apple should be better than that. They seem to have the same bad incentive Google search does. What is CFD gambling? When I read “CFD” I always think of computational fluid dynamics and so “CFD gambling” sounds pretty cool to me. Obviously I do know I’m just overfitting to a TLA and…

> Apple should be better than that. Everyone should be better than that, but as far as Apple specifically, they're really no better than any other hypermegacorp. Apple's a company, it doesn't give a damn about you, it only gives a damn about enriching its owners.

Apple built up a really strong brand by not doing this kind of thing for a while. They get to charge twice as much money for half as much performance because they made sure their products felt nice and intuitive to use. Now they’re willing to destroy the most valuable brand in the world to make crypto money? It makes absolutely no sense, even accounting for greed.

Also, I’m sure this kind of thing hurts their prospects in antitrust cases (like in the EU)

Re: Scammed by the top result for 'Bitcoin wallet' in Apple App Store

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Post by moribvndvs »

Working as intended. Apple has repeatedly rejected an update to an app that we have recently updated because it had a link to our help site which links to our main site which has an option to purchase a subscription. Despite us having published 60 versions successfully until today, that link being there and unchanged the entire time. But this sort of shit, no problem go right on through, sir.

Re: Scammed by the top result for 'Bitcoin wallet' in Apple App Store

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Post by sensanaty »

EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK wrote: post #103
crossroadsguy wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On the contrary, as someone who has worked with both platforms as a developer, this is my personal opinion: - Around a lot of things software, including the Play Store, Google’s safety and security, for all its ads, tracking and shenanigans, are real, largely verifiable, discussed openly, and pretty fucking robust (not to mention, most of it are actually open). - Apple’s? Smoke and mirrors! Essentially some vague shi…

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iOS exploits are worth the same as Android ones.

Re: Scammed by the top result for 'Bitcoin wallet' in Apple App Store

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Post by morder »

concinds wrote: post #45
ilamont wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Two versions of the video. This one shows the click: https://youtube.com/shorts/dXZQMkPJkXg?si=hsL8fUirHZj3DMG5

That's still a jump cut, it only pretends to show the click. Dodgy

even if it did show the click it's easy enough to edit the page in devtools to go wherever you want
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