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Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Predatory loan apps continue to exploit users despite Google's ban

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Predatory loan apps continue to exploit users despite Google's ban

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Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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Google banned personal loans with an Annual Percentage Rate (APR) of 36 percent or higher back in October 2019. Predatory loan apps that collect personal data from...
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    Google just not monitoring their app store. Brilliant. Doesn’t seem to hard to pull an app that is openly known to extort users.

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      They don’t monitor their ads either, I’ve seen multiple ads for outright scams from app store stuff.

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        Meanwhile if you’re an ad-blocking app…

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          Let’s not forget that ads are also a prime malware attack vector. Good times, thanks advertisers! Can’t imagine why anyone would want to block ads, crazy, right!?

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            Commie!

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              im in ur base seizin ur means of production lolomgpwned

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        That, combined with the number of times I’ve seen a mobile game ad try to open my browser (without the phone even being in my hands, so I didn’t touch shit), makes me genuinely wonder how bad it can possibly get before any authority steps up and holds Google accountable.

        …If any authority ever holds them accountable, of course.

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          EU has entered the chat

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