• WhoRoger@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I love it. See how important it is to keep a closed store, for security!

    But honestly no malicious app is probability worse than the genuine article anyway.

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      1 year ago

      it needs apple seal of approval to even exist in their eco, so it must the real deal!

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      1 year ago

      Is there a way to trick the App Store into displaying the wrong age for your app? Because if not, then this app is 4 years old and Meta is actually stealing their name.

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        1 year ago

        The 4+ age is like for videogames ESRB and PEGI, it’s not the age of how long the app has been in the App Store

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    1 year ago

    It surprises me how poor people’s technology literacy is, when they see an app with a completely skewed logo and think, “It’s probably the real deal.”

    There really needs to be some form of education in this area…

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      1 year ago

      They’ve decided yet another service from Zuck is a good idea. We’re not dealing with geniuses here

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    1 year ago

    That’s literally not the official one. At least it collects less data. Anyone has experience with what it does? Just connects to fediverse?

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    1 year ago

    Time for somebody to make an EU-exclusive Mastodon instance called realthreads.legit and put it up on app stores. The real way to grow the fediverse in a hurry is to trick people into it. /s

  • Joakim@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Meanwhile, a lot of other apps have “not affiliated with Instagram” as a disclaimer as their first line of the description. I was wondering if Apple requires it or even automated it somehow. Screenshot