
“The average payment is said to be around $114”
What are you kids doing?
Oh nothing, Mum…
Consumers tricked into making unwanted purchases in Epic Games' popular Fortnite title should see refunds start to hit their accounts this week, according to the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The FTC said Monday that it was disbursing a round of refunds totaling more than $72 million a little less than two years since it …
Obligatory XKCD Penny Arcade...
Yes, and when you do so, you (or at least, I did) get/got a stern, frightening-to-teh-newbies warning about untrusted software, malware, blah-blah.
That said, there are metric crap-tons of Android malware out there, and most newbies have a poor sense of what is reasonably-safe, and what is not.
(Running F-Droid here, having manually downloaded the .APKs for the F-Droid store and Termux to my laptop, and scanning rhem with VirusTotal.com before installing them on my phone.)
NBA2K next - every time the game loads a "Purchase this DLC" flash screen appears about 2/3 seconds after the menu options appear with the "buy" button being the same button you use to select one of the menu options.
Incredible that multiple platforms (Steam, Xbox and PS) allow them to get away with this.
"For example, players could be charged while attempting to wake the game from sleep mode, while the game was in a loading screen, or by pressing an adjacent button while attempting simply to preview an item."
These have some similarity to the methods MS have and deploying to get uses to upgrade Windows, Windows Mail, subscribe to 365 etc.