egocentric

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by egocentric 5y ago
I’m the developer mentioned in the article. Send me the details at bunco.squad@hey.com and I’ll do my best to expose them.
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Fake reviews and ratings manipulation continue to plague the App Store charts(9to5mac.com)
2 points by egocentric 5y ago|2 comments
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The App Store is not a place you can trust(twitter.com)
2 points by egocentric 6y ago|0 comments
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The App Store is broken because it wasn't designed to work(world.hey.com)
9 points by egocentric 6y ago|3 comments
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Epic argues that Apple’s App Store review process is “cursory”(twitter.com)
1 points by egocentric 6y ago|0 comments
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Another $1M scam app surfaces amid App Store legal battles(appleinsider.com)
2 points by egocentric 6y ago|1 comments
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Apple should let us sideload notarized apps on iOS(twitter.com)
3 points by egocentric 6y ago|0 comments
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by egocentric 6y ago
"We applied our fake review classifier to the full official Apple App Store dataset. As a results, 22,207,782 (35,5%) of all 62,617,037 reviews were classified as fake."
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Over a third of App Store reviews considered fake(link.springer.com)
1 points by egocentric 6y ago|1 comments
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by egocentric 6y ago
Original post had paywalled source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26638131
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by egocentric 6y ago
Reposted here since the original source is paywalled: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26640047
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Bitcoin Scam App Approved by Apple Robs iPhone User of $600k(macrumors.com)
24 points by egocentric 6y ago|11 comments
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App Store scam steals $600k in life savings.(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by egocentric 6y ago|2 comments
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Fleeceware apps have earned over $400M on Android and iOS(blog.avast.com)
2 points by egocentric 6y ago|0 comments
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How Apple can crack down on fake apps in the App Store(businessinsider.com)
2 points by egocentric 6y ago|0 comments
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Assume every App Store review is a lie(cultofmac.com)
2 points by egocentric 6y ago|0 comments
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by egocentric 6y ago
And executioner.
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by egocentric 6y ago
In case anyone's wondering, the egregious scam I exposed 2 weeks ago is still up: https://twitter.com/keleftheriou/status/1361340737212669963?...
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Apple cracks down on ‘irrationally high prices’ as App Store scams are exposed(daringfireball.net)
18 points by egocentric 6y ago|5 comments
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Can Apple handle the great responsibility that is the App Store?(macworld.com)
1 points by egocentric 6y ago|0 comments
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Developer reveals how fake reviews and ratings play major role in AppStore scams(9to5mac.com)
2 points by egocentric 6y ago|0 comments
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by egocentric 6y ago
The rating of my reviews matches the overall rating of my app. That is not the case - at all - for the app(s) I mention in my Twitter thread.
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by egocentric 6y ago
OP here. My app's rating is 3.4. I'm not gaming the rating system to my advantage, and I encourage you to check out my app, as well as competing apps with 4.5 or so stars. Something that will never allow me or any watch keyboard t
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What Apple doesn’t want you to know about the App Store(twitter.com)
35 points by egocentric 6y ago|6 comments
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Apple’s App Store is hosting multi-million dollar scams(theverge.com)
78 points by egocentric 6y ago|8 comments
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Developer exposes multiple million-dollar scam apps on the App Store(9to5mac.com)
69 points by egocentric 6y ago|8 comments
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by egocentric 6y ago
I'm working on leveraging the entire public dataset of ratings & reviews to expose some of these scams in a systematic fashion. I hope to announce more details soon.
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by egocentric 6y ago
When you rate an app, leaving a comment is optional - and most people only bother to rate rather than also write a review. For scammers to hide their tracks, they need to make sure they also leave a comment in some fraction of their submitt
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by egocentric 6y ago
I've never thought Apple was a saint - they've always been a for-profit company. But I've always thought they'd want to do the right thing with regards to this issue, because to do so is a win-win situation: they protect
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by egocentric 6y ago
> In general, this doesn't seem like a great use of the HN self-post feature. If you feel this strongly about it, maybe write a blog post that can be formatted properly? Thanks, I'll do that. I originally posted this on Twitter

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