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Re:Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account by user5994461 on Friday August 28, 2020 @05:12PM (#24310015)
Be clear to the kids that they don't have permissions to spend money in apps, then systematically request for refund and charge back if the app doesn't refund you.

Apps have no basis to deceive children into spending money. Most of their practices are outright illegal depending on the jurisdiction (latin Europe), shouldn't have mercy on them.

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Re:Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account by csunbird on Friday August 28, 2020 @05:53PM (#24310476)
There are bad developers will not pay your money back and keep their 5 bucks and only refund after a long, long process. They feed on this behavior, for each customer do not challenge those purchases they make free money.

When all the payments are forced to go through a trusted processor with correct parental controls for all apps in the platform, you guarantee that your kid will not make any uninformed purchases.

The thing about fraud is, if you do not stop it completely, it grows exponentially.

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