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Re:Apple’s tightly controlled App Store is teeming with scams by Someone on Sunday June 06, 2021 @01:06PM (#27414517)
> Why would they remove the ability for people to easily report apps?

Reasons could be:

- nobody uses that button

- people use the button, but mostly not for its intended purpose.

I would guess a fairly generic “report a problem” button would attract lots of messages of type 2. I can see people complain there about missing features, ask support questions, etc. I would bet that, to many, it wasn’t clear that button let you send a message to Apple.

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Re:Apple’s tightly controlled App Store is teeming with scams by Mathnerd314 on Sunday June 06, 2021 @02:33PM (#27415165)
If the issue was UI they could have changed the text to something like "Report scam" or "Flag app".

It's probably a cost thing, they didn't want to pay a team to go through the reports.

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