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by wahnfrieden 20 days ago
Use DeviceCheck if iOS app too. Uber does this to ban across accounts
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Great, another thing to worry about when buying a used phone: Did any of the previous owners get banned by any of the apps I intend to use on it?
That's an interesting idea. The sad thing is, the money lost through chargebacks is minimal for me in the grand scheme of things but it makes me irate enough to potentially spend the development time (that will never have a positive ROI) on adding in something like this just to stick it to the scammers.
It is at least very simple to implement. It's a simple API. Useful capability for banning abusive users too if you have social elements or other abuse vectors besides payment.
I imagine most fraudsters wouldn't be using iOS. I'm curious if the android app fingerprinting solutions go cross user profile.
As far as I know, DRM systems like Widewine have IDs that cross user profile lines.