[mort96]

I just searched for uBlock. Top result is an ad for another ad blocker. Second result is an ad blocker called "Ublock", with "Origin" in its tags; a clear scam whose purpose is to leech off the reputation of uBlock Origin and trick people.

Apple's App Store is chock full of scams like this. It's not just bad search, it's a failure to enforce any kind of anti scam policy (combined with seemingly intentionally terrible search).

[mns]

But god forbid you have the word Android somewhere in your app, because they will then reject your update.

[filoleg]

> god forbid you have the word Android somewhere in your app

I literally have an app installed on my iPhone called “Android TV” (a remote to control android smart TVs, which I used to have years ago), and it says “Connect to Android TV” in giant header typeface on the app homescreen.

Searching for “Android” on app store brings up even more apps containing that word in the name and in the app, including third-party non-Google apps.

[mns]

We have an app for our platform and that app has a news section, we were rejected because we had news about Android devices. We are at this point providing a filtered news list where items with certain keywords are excluded on Apple devices. Maybe it's because of the app category.

[radicaldreamer]

Apple’s App Store makes so much revenue (mainly through the slightly more legit scams like gacha games, but plenty through weekly subscriptions for outright scam apps too) that there are many incentives for that team to never clean this up.

It’s a huge driver of what Apple pushes as the future of the company: services. It has been this way for more than a decade now: "What the hell is this????Remember our talking about finding bad apps with low ratings? Remember our talk bout becoming the 'Nordstroms' of stores in quality of service?“ - Phil Schiller in 2012 (https://www.imore.com/hilarious-phil-schiller-email-reveals-...)

[sneak]

Apple’s contempt for its customers is palpable these days.

It breaks my heart to see how far they’ve fallen.

[cwmoore]

I have not raised expectations since they deleted half of my music collection years ago. To this day they provide no way to export iMessage threads.

[recursive]

Some of us have been palpating it for decades.

[vehemenz]

The problem is that people like us use Homebrew (and tell our families to), so there’s little incentive to complain loudly about this issue. Browser extensions and the occasional one-off app are the only reasons to go there.

[bsenftner]

Why do people think a browser extension is safe to use?

[jodrellblank]

Why do people think a browser is safe to use? Why do people think any app is safe to use? Why do people think a website is safe to use? Why do people think an OS is safe to use? Why do people think a driver is safe to use? Why do people think a firmware is safe to use? Why do people think a hardware device is safe to use? Why do people think the chips inside are safe to use? Why do people think an ISP is safe to use?

If you have a point to make about it being particularly unsafe or different from any other internet/software trust, make that point. Otherwise you know well enough that there isn't any other option but trust, and people generally trust stuff until given a good reason not to.

[vehemenz]

The point is that Safari's extension system requires using the App Store, not that it's inherently safer. In some ways, the "App" model that Safari uses could be more unsafe, regardless of Apple's code review.

Nonetheless, a critical engagement of software "safety" would require another few thousand words, at least.

[bearl]

Security experts.

[bsenftner]

I've always wondered why attorneys do not see these situations as easy money. Corporations really do control the courts...