
{"id":3978,"date":"2021-04-16T19:20:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T23:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dviouscontent.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/16\/apples-app-store-hosted-kiddie-games-with-secret-gambling-dens-inside\/"},"modified":"2021-04-17T05:55:39","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T09:55:39","slug":"apples-app-store-hosted-kiddie-games-with-secret-gambling-dens-inside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dviouscontent.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/16\/apples-app-store-hosted-kiddie-games-with-secret-gambling-dens-inside\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple&#8217;s App Store Hosted Kiddie Games With Secret Gambling Dens Inside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"fhbody-145060188\">\n<div id=\"text-145060188\" class=\"p\">\n<p>\t\t\t\tBased on app developer Kosta Eleftheriou, Apple&#8217;s App Retailer hosted a child&#8217;s recreation that is truly a entrance for playing web sites. &#8220;The key password is not one you would be prone to guess: it&#8217;s a must to be in the suitable nation &#8212; or faux to be in the suitable nation utilizing a VPN,&#8221; writes Sean Hollister through The Verge. &#8220;However then, as a substitute of launching an unsightly monkey-flipping limitless runner recreation full of typos and bugs, the exact same app <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/keleftheriou\/status\/1382750329972805633?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1382750329972805633%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theverge.com%2F2021%2F4%2F15%2F22386533%2Fios-app-scam-jungle-runner-magical-forest-apple-kosta\">launches a casino experience<\/a>.&#8221; From the report: <i> The app, &#8220;Jungle Runner 2k21,&#8221; has already disappeared from the App Retailer, presumably because of publicity from Gizmodo and Daring Fireball, who every wrote about Eleftheriou&#8217;s discovering earlier at present. It isn&#8217;t the one one, although: the identical developer, &#8220;Colin Malachi,&#8221; had one other extremely primary recreation on the App Retailer known as &#8220;Magical Forest &#8211; Puzzle&#8221; that was additionally a entrance for playing. [&#8230;] I accessed them from a VPN server in Turkey; Whereas Daring Fireball notes that customers in different non-US nations like Italy additionally appear to have been in a position to entry the playing websites, I attempted them with quite a few different places together with Italy with out success.<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Not like the multi-million greenback App Retailer scams that Eleftheriou uncovered earlier this yr, it is not exhausting to see why Apple&#8217;s App Retailer assessment program might need missed these &#8212; they largely appear to be your typical shovelware if you do not know the trick, with solely a handful of tells&#8230; like the truth that Jungle Runner makes use of a Pastebin for its privateness insurance policies. It isn&#8217;t essentially clear to me that they&#8217;d be violating very a lot of Apple&#8217;s App Retailer insurance policies, both. Playing apps are permitted by Apple, so long as they&#8217;re geo-restricted to areas the place that playing is permitted by legislation, and you can perhaps argue that is precisely what this developer did by checking your IP tackle. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/rss.slashdot.org\/~r\/Slashdot\/slashdotGames\/~3\/sf85smQ7OgM\/apples-app-store-hosted-kiddie-games-with-secret-gambling-dens-inside\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Based on app developer Kosta Eleftheriou, Apple&#8217;s App Retailer hosted a child&#8217;s recreation that is truly a entrance for playing web sites. &#8220;The key password is not one you would be prone to guess: it&#8217;s a must to be in the suitable nation &#8212; or faux to be in the suitable nation utilizing a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[366,3546,3549,205,189,3547,3548,418,1151],"class_list":["post-3978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-released","tag-app","tag-apples","tag-dens","tag-gambling","tag-games","tag-hosted","tag-kiddie","tag-secret","tag-store"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dviouscontent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dviouscontent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dviouscontent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dviouscontent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dviouscontent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dviouscontent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3979,"href":"https:\/\/dviouscontent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3978\/revisions\/3979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dviouscontent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dviouscontent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dviouscontent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dviouscontent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}