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Re:Google took three months to remove scam app that stole ov... by ben_w on Monday August 19, 2024 @03:14PM (#41293823)
They don't have to get all countries on the same page; for example, they could default to only allowing apps to be sold in the country of the vendor, then expand from that to countries with an extradition treaty with the vendor's country.

Also probably not quite as hard as you make out in practice, as 27 of those countries share membership of a super-national government whose specific purpose is to make trade easier by streamlining legislative differences between them, and that block plus two other single countries constitute about 60% of the world's GDP.

Though random small-time scammers may regardless have a hard time selling in China an app made outside, and vice-versa, as even just the language barrier can be quite intense — I've played a game where the decently resourced western publisher didn't notice (or noticed but didn't fix) the fact that the "choose your name" box only had room for one character, and thus I was the only player who had an interesting name like '狐' rather than 'M'.

Re:Google took three months to remove scam app that stole ov... by AnthonyMouse on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @01:30AM (#41297091)
> they could default to only allowing apps to be sold in the country of the vendor, then expand from that to countries with an extradition treaty with the vendor's country.

You don't even need an extradition treaty. Just require some collateral for selling outside your own country. Then people selling within their own country (i.e. probably most people) don't have to post anything but are automatically in the same jurisdiction as the victim. Whereas scammers from other countries forfeit their collateral, the amount of which is set based on the amount of scams coming out of their country.