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  • Apple protected App Store users from $1.5 billion fraud last year

    From David Brooks@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jun 6 21:47:21 2022
    XPost: alt.computer.workshop

    Apple says that it protected many millions of users from being defrauded
    to the tune of nearly $1.5 billion dollars in the last year, by policing
    its official App Store.

    According to a newly published report by Apple, over 1.6 million risky
    and untrustworthy apps and app updates were stopped in their tracks due
    to the company’s fraud prevention analysis.

    During 2021, Apple says that over 835,000 problematic new apps, and an additional 805,000 app updates, were rejected or removed for violating
    the App Store’s guidelines – which aim to weed out buggy, unfinished
    apps, as well as those which contain potential issues related to
    privacy, security, and spam.

    https://www.apple.com/uk/newsroom/2022/06/app-store-stopped-nearly-one-point-five-billion-in-fraudulent-transactions-in-2021/

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  • From Snit@21:1/5 to David Brooks on Mon Jun 6 21:28:01 2022
    XPost: alt.computer.workshop

    On Jun 6, 2022 at 1:47:21 PM MST, "David Brooks" wrote <tJtnK.8654$[email protected]>:

    Apple says that it protected many millions of users from being defrauded
    to the tune of nearly $1.5 billion dollars in the last year, by policing
    its official App Store.

    According to a newly published report by Apple, over 1.6 million risky
    and untrustworthy apps and app updates were stopped in their tracks due
    to the company’s fraud prevention analysis.

    During 2021, Apple says that over 835,000 problematic new apps, and an additional 805,000 app updates, were rejected or removed for violating
    the App Store’s guidelines – which aim to weed out buggy, unfinished apps, as well as those which contain potential issues related to
    privacy, security, and spam.

    https://www.apple.com/uk/newsroom/2022/06/app-store-stopped-nearly-one-point-five-billion-in-fraudulent-transactions-in-2021/

    They do not handle this stuff perfectly -- nobody does -- but they clearly put an effort into it.

    --
    Personal attacks from those who troll show their own insecurity. They cannot use reason to show the message to be wrong so they try to feel somehow superior by attacking the messenger.

    They cling to their attacks and ignore the message time and time again.

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