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by rowanG077 1109 days ago
It should simply be disallowed to allow purchases within an app, product or service. I'm not against high prices, simply against practices that have been optimized to attack weaknesses in the human psyche to extract maximum money.

I'm also against most forms of ads for example.

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I would be more inclined to make it so that it is possible for people to buy apps without forcing them to link credit cards or other uncontrolled money withdrawals. I know this would ban those "credit card required for free trial" scams - and I consider every single one of those to be outright fraud. People should not have to spend all of their attention defending themselves from predators.
At the very least it should be kept from children. Tons of games marketed at children are just toxic crap designed to get them to spend money.