turboSnail

Oof… that’s just diabolical. If I say that I hate that, it’s still going to feel like an understatement.

There’s an even worse variant of that.

1. Install an app.
2. Start it up.
3. It asks you some relevant questions to customize the experience to your needs.
4. You answer them, and that takes a while.
5. It asks you for your card.
6. ???
7. Profit

At least that’s how the app devs imagine how that’s going to go. IRL though, you just kill the app immediately, leave a bad review about dark patterns, and delete the whole scamware from your phone. If the devs are feeling extra greedy, they’ll also ask for you to rate the app long before you’ve even had an opportunity to do anything with it.

Yikes! That was pretty messed up. Goes to show that you can’t really trust Microsoft or Samsungto handle things for you.