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What precludes you from submitting the app for review with fairly innocuous ads, then flipping the switch to show malicious ads? Or, perhaps have someone who on
by Sanddancer 12y ago
What precludes you from submitting the app for review with fairly innocuous ads, then flipping the switch to show malicious ads? Or, perhaps have someone who only wants to show ads every once in a while? For example, an app for handling trade shows where you only want to show ads while the person is at the event space. There are a number of legitimate reasons why you wouldn't want to show an ad right that moment.
- mikeash 12y agoThere's always the implicit thread of strong reprisals (e.g. being blacklisted for life) if you overtly try to trick them rather than just making a mistake. It would be really easy to just show the reviewers a completely different app from what users see. All you have to do is detect the review process and alter your behavior. This could be something as simple as pinging a server which returns "yes" or "no", and you flip the switch on the server after you pass review. But nobody does this, because the implied consequences for doing it are not nice.