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Re:Apple: $10B In App Store Sales In 2013, $15B Paid Out To ... by marknutter on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @09:15AM (#7017356)
There are plenty of sensible parental controls you can put in place. You have nobody to blame but yourself.
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Re:Apple: $10B In App Store Sales In 2013, $15B Paid Out To ... by ctz on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @09:21AM (#7017387) 

  You have nobody to blame but yourself.
Which is why Apple settled their class action on this subject, and as a direct result altered the appstore to mark free apps with IAP as such.
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Re:Apple: $10B In App Store Sales In 2013, $15B Paid Out To ... by thirdsight on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @09:19AM (#7017379)
I don't enforce parental controls (restrictions). They are too old for that crap.

However I don't want adverts in web pages that have detected an iPad forever redirecting to the app store. Then when you switch back to safari they reload and back to the app store app again unless you are quick.

It's like the bad old days of the Internet again playing banner whack a mole.

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Re:Apple: $10B In App Store Sales In 2013, $15B Paid Out To ... by alexpenny on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @09:57AM (#7017586)
This has been a recent phenomenon, that as of yesterday started gaining public acknowledgment.

http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/06/shady-app-install-ads-are-a...

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Re:Apple: $10B In App Store Sales In 2013, $15B Paid Out To ... by ceejayoz on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @10:17AM (#7017704)
Malicious ads on ad networks are hardly a recent phenomenon.
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Re:Apple: $10B In App Store Sales In 2013, $15B Paid Out To ... by zequel on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @02:30PM (#7019299)
You can download (free) browser apps, Terra for instance, that spoof the browser useragent (ie, firefox, another one iirc).
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Re:Apple: $10B In App Store Sales In 2013, $15B Paid Out To ... by norswap on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @09:24AM (#7017399)
I think you misunderstood the OP. The problem is not that his kids bought things behind his back.
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Re:Apple: $10B In App Store Sales In 2013, $15B Paid Out To ... by bennyg on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @09:19AM (#7017378)
Gotta' read reviews before you buy anything on the app store.
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Re:Apple: $10B In App Store Sales In 2013, $15B Paid Out To ... by GotAnyMegadeth on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @09:18AM (#7017373)
On them, not by them.
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