Today I bring you a video something different from what you are used to here on Androidsis, a video that is not about applications, a video that is not about games nor a video tutorial on how to do such a thing. On this occasion I bring you a protest video with which I want to show you the dangers that Android users expose ourselves to directly, even by downloading applications from the official Google store, the Play Store.
And I say vindictive video, because I want to publicize these practices that, although they are legal and frequent in the Google Play Store, I think they are unethical since it is very easy to deceive more confident or less experienced users that it is at last and after what you are living dubious apps that can be misleading, or rather, cheat applications or applications that make you think that you really have to legislate these ways of acting.
In the video that I have left you right at the beginning of this post, I show you a supposed free application that we can download from the Google Play Store, which already conveniently warns that ads are included within the app, (a logical thing to be an application supposedly free), in addition to those already known to all purchases within the application commonly known as in-app purchases.
When reading the description of the application, an application of those chorizo and striking of the many that usually exist in the Google store, at no time are you warned that it is a trial application in which to be able to play it or to be able to try it, you will have to subscribe yes or yes to the annual subscription that costs nothing more and nothing less than 54.99 Euros per year.
We are going to download the application and nothing for free since you will not even be able to try it, and is that to be able to try it even for only those three sad days that they offer you for free, you will have to contract a subscription, giving your data and consent to be charged annually to your credit card , Paypal account or payment method that you have assigned to your Google account.
This in itself, as I have already commented in the video and at the beginning of this post, is a practice that for me, although it is considered legal, It is a practice as less suspicious and that can or tries to lead to deception or mistake and that you are charged the almost 55 Euros of the annual subscription for little you get lost Or that you do not have your Android well protected so that it asks you for confirmation by password or fingerprint for each and every one of the purchases made from your Android terminal and from your associated Google account.
I would like to know how much income this application and applications of the same business style get, due to errors made by users or their young children who hire a trial service that, even if they specify it before downloading the application, the fact and the little habit of reading what we are downloading, in this case buying, It ends in an unpleasant situation in which at least 54.99 Euros will be hung all over our faces..
I personally believe that these apps you need paid subscription to be able to even try them, They should be in a special category in the Google Play Store in which in addition to being separated from the free or single-payment applications, are also well tagged, controlled and located by Google. Never as they are now scrambled in an immense tangle of thousands and thousands of free applications that only charge you through a few ads.
In addition to the fact that together with the name of the application in question, it should also be reported that it is an application that works by means of mandatory subscription., and I say the name because it is what we all pay most attention to besides the screenshots,
Anyway, at the top of the article I leave you the video in which I show you the application in question, one of those many applications that can mislead us and there are many more in Google Play than I would like to acknowledge.
Some applications in which the only way we have to protect ourselves, apart from read everything very well before downloading an applicationit's keeping our Google account protected so that all purchases we want to make ask us for a password or fingerprint. Especially if we leave our Android to the smallest of the house, which is one of the most common things that we usually do on a daily basis.
I would like you to claim what I say here that it is more than the normalization and regulation of these applications in separate and identified sections within the Google Play Store, You will see the video that I have left in the header of this same post as well as leave your comment about what you think about these practices that, always in my personal opinion and without representing anyone, I believe that they seek deception and obtain an income at the expense of the errors of less experienced users or simply more trusting users or minors since, for example in the case of this application in question, like many others of this style, are applications that are designed and oriented for a child / youth audience. What coincidence don't you think?