Epic, Spotify, and Tinder form advocacy group to push for app store changes
Haha - this illustrates WHY the app store is so popular.<p>You&#x27;ve got Match.com (owns tinder). Repeat FTC offender (most scammmers never get the FTC slap on the wrist).<p>&quot;Match Group also allegedly makes it too difficult to cancel a subscription through “confusing and cumbersome cancellation practices.” The FTC claims users must click through two pages of survey questions and cites a 2015 internal presentation that notes the cancellation flow as “hard to find, tedious and confusing.” “Members often think they’ve cancelled when they have not and end up with unwanted renewals,” More recently they were doing the fake match emails to generate signups. I&#x27;m not sure if that case has settled yet.<p>You&#x27;ve got Epic.<p>They are pretty famous for targeting kids and getting them to spend their parents money, auto-saving payment info parents may enter to allow a single purchase, microtransactions nightmare and using &quot;v bucks&quot; &#x2F; bannanas etc to make it less transparent in terms of what things are actually costing. Refund &#x2F; complaint procedures are horrible. &quot;When Stecklare tried to request a refund from Epic Games, she says, it was like hitting a brick wall. She sent multiple emails over several days but says she received only boilerplate responses.&quot;....<p>Spotify<p>They find no name bands they don&#x27;t have to pay to do covers of major musical acts or replace the &quot;best of...&quot; albums with these trash albums. They&#x27;ve also been sued repeatedly over their royalty practices. The lawsuit (below) alleges that Spotify has participated in &quot;an egregious, continuous and ongoing campaign of deliberate copyright infringement&quot; around the mechanical license for many of the songs on its platform.<p>Having these folks in charge of app subscriptions and setting standards inside the apple walled garden is going to be a TRAIN WRECK if they win this case. So much trust is going to be lost by users who are used to stuff in the apple world not having these and other scammers playing around in it.