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Re:Apple Pulling High-Grossing Scammy Offer Subscription App... by jboles on Saturday October 20, 2018 @04:11PM (#18265175)
The issue is not the app getting the fingerprint data, but rather literally baiting your finger onto the reader and then switching to a Touch ID subscription prompt under your finger?
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Re:Apple Pulling High-Grossing Scammy Offer Subscription App... by greglindahl on Saturday October 20, 2018 @04:25PM (#18265238)
I'd bet that A/B testing would easily show that they make a lot more money if the users' finger is already on the reader from a recent press.
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Re:Apple Pulling High-Grossing Scammy Offer Subscription App... by wool_gather on Saturday October 20, 2018 @04:33PM (#18265279)
No, I understand that, and maybe this is just a tangent, but the parent post seemed to be implying that the app was using the fingerprint itself, and I was trying to get a clarification. (And I'm honestly a little skeptical of the story.)
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Re:Apple Pulling High-Grossing Scammy Offer Subscription App... by madeofpalk on Sunday October 21, 2018 @07:03AM (#18267491)
Watch the video. It's a scam app. There's zero actual ancestry finding going on. It's like those scamming 'anti virus' apps for iPhone. The app has zero use for the fingerprint, apart from manipulating you into subscribing to a $100/month in app purchase subscription https://vimeo.com/287737290
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Re:Apple Pulling High-Grossing Scammy Offer Subscription App... by wool_gather on Sunday October 21, 2018 @09:59AM (#18267983)
I see, thanks for that extra information.
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