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by codexb 195 days ago
At one point, there was a case for preventing scammy and fraudulent apps. For a long time, the ios App store had a much higher quality than android.

But now? There are tons of scammy and fraudulent apps on the app store. If you try to search for any popular app, you'll be presented with a dozen apps that look similar with similar names and logos.
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bigyabai 195 days ago
Apple's "manual review" process stopped meaning anything to me when they verified a trojan horse version of LastPass: https://blog.lastpass.com/posts/warning-fraudulent-app-imper...

I don't even know how this is possible. FOSS repos have more security than that...

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whstl 195 days ago
Yep. And this has been the case for over a decade.

They might do some sampling, but they're definitely not checking everything.

The first app I published in 2012 had a backend, but the Apple team never logged in with the provided credentials, or even tried anything.

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bogwog 195 days ago
Like when you search for anything "AI" and get bombarded with a wall of minimalist goatse
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buellerbueller 195 days ago
Also: gambling apps. Legal, sure, but also incredibly scammy.
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SXX 195 days ago
And there are literally app farms pushing hundreds consealed illegal gambling / casino / betting apps to app store daily. Apple approves every single one.

They are then getting removed in days / weeks, but it just proves their review process is a joke.

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