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by evercast
1625 days ago
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Interestingly, this is not some random app, but something that has been featured in Wired: https://www.wired.com/2015/09/turn-handful-phones-speaker-sy... This is their webpage: https://ampme.com/. It says ©2019 Amp Me Inc. which could mean it was not updated since then. This is also when the app started charging money. Could it be that the authors sold the app and the developer account to scammers? Also, not sure how to treat the accusation about easy to subscribe and hard to cancel. It seems the subscription can be canceled in iOS like all other subscriptions? The app is also in Google store. |
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It seems that advertising didn’t work out, so they turned to in-app purchases in 2018 – roughly when the fake reviews also started.
On the subscription, it’s harder to cancel than it is to sign up for, like all App Store IAP subscriptions. It really should be possible to easily cancel from within the app itself rather than going to the Settings app – something a lot of people don’t know how to do, unfortunately.
“It used to be a legit app”: https://twitter.com/lap_felix/status/1480631686413041666?s=2...
On the founder’s previous company: “Wajam: From start‑up to massively‑spread adware” https://www.welivesecurity.com/2019/06/05/wajam-startup-mass...