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The mobile app markets are operating at such scales, that there's a literal avalanche of scammers and assholes waiting to take advantage of you. There is zero
by blub 7y ago
The mobile app markets are operating at such scales, that there's a literal avalanche of scammers and assholes waiting to take advantage of you.
There is zero chance that I would send personal info or payment data to some no-name app and even most of the other well known apps.
- hindsightbias 7y agoCorrelation may not be causation, but I have a four year old CC that is just used for online subscriptins and purchases (netflix, hbo, apple, amazon, intuit, airlines, phone). Friday AM, I threw caution to the wind and used it at a smaller retailer site and software vendor. Within an hour I had a notice from my bank that my cc information had been exposed and a new card was being sent to me. I don’t like a world where I have to be paranoid and minimize the vendors who get my sacred numbers/business, but from the headlines and experience not many others are willing to be paranoid enough about security for me.
- dwild 7y ago> There is zero chance that I would send personal info or payment data to some no-name app and even most of the other well known apps. Then don't... It never stopped me from giving my credit card number to Amazon. I gained quite a bit from that and never had to give 30% to Apple to gain from it. I did have to give 2.5% to Visa though, but they did provide a pretty good service to justify that 2.5%.