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Re:Apple’s App Store is hosting multi-million dollar scams by coldtea on Monday February 08, 2021 @03:35PM (#26069737)
"But still way less than Android and/or the open web" - though this wouldn't make for such an interesting headline...
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Re:Apple’s App Store is hosting multi-million dollar scams by viraptor on Monday February 08, 2021 @04:07PM (#26070140)
> and/or the open web

The open web does not have the expectation of moderation. Apple's store does, and they're still failing even if they're not as bad as a mostly unchecked place.

The news is not that scam apps exist. It's that they're blatantly obvious in both search abuse and other aspects and they're not removed.

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Re:Apple’s App Store is hosting multi-million dollar scams by coldtea on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @05:17AM (#26075786)
>The open web does not have the expectation of moderation. Apple's store does, and they're still failing even if they're not as bad as a mostly unchecked place.

Many times not as bad...

https://www.pandasecurity.com/en/mediacenter/mobile-security...

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Re:Apple’s App Store is hosting multi-million dollar scams by nr2x on Monday February 08, 2021 @05:57PM (#26071448)
Tim Berners-Lee doesn’t take a cut of web sales or decide what web pages people can see.
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Re:Apple’s App Store is hosting multi-million dollar scams by coldtea on Monday February 08, 2021 @09:23PM (#26073141)
No, but Google does, and Google, Facebook (plus 2-4 other companies) are 90% of the web people use...

(Literally, in some countries people don't know "the internet", they know "Facebook").

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