Beware of dubious applications. They will silently rob the mobile phone owner of their money
The AppStore is the main (and only) channel for iOS apps to be widely distributed locally, thanks mainly to Apple’s strict conditions. A false sense of security is, however, an ideal breeding ground for all possible fraudsters, and despite the emphasis on security and dubious applications, they find their way not only to the App Store, but also to the users themselves.
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Before each installation, you need to consider what the application offers and requires
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This is pointed out by the specialized domestic website smartmania.cz. He recalled that the domestic antivirus company Avast already warned about 133 dubious applications that could pose a risk to users in March of last year. At that time, the applications registered over 500 million and in total they managed to “earn” approximately 365 million dollars (approx. 8.6 billion crowns) from users.
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Take a look at the photo gallery to see which app it is.
Fifteen months later, unfortunately, 84 of them are still available for download. The applications do not steal your personal data and there is nothing inherently dangerous about them, they try to take advantage of the inattention of users and at the same time they are not disadvantaged by a subscription that will drain money from their bank accounts every month for making many banal functions available.
According to the server Vpncheck.org, in this way, application creators get approximately 8.6 million dollars per month (approx. 200 million crowns) from users.
No breaking the rules
Why doesn’t Apple actually remove these apps? “For a simple reason – they’re not officially breaking his rules, and on top of that, he gets a 30 percent cut of every paid subscription business from Cupertino. Let’s hope that Apple’s policy will change in the future and ban deceptive practices in applications,” smartmania.cz offers the answer.