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submitted 2 months ago by Al0neStar@lemmy.world to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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Bro really tried to sell his subscribers a "50$ a year" subscription to a "wallpaper" app.

Interesting points about the "app":

the app has premium and free wallpapers
the free wallpapers are only available in sd quality and if you want hd youd have to subscribe
in order to unlock the sd quality you have to watch two 30 second ads.
theres a wallpaper called "orange" thats just the color orange

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[–] tyler@programming.dev 78 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Way more than that.

requires crazy permissions like user location
wallpapers are in a publicly accessible s3 bucket
profit split for wallpaper creators is 50/50 which is worse than most app store splits
most of the creators actually seem to be current MKBHD employees
app is either built from a template or an old app that they bought

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

wallpapers are in a publicly accessible s3 bucket

How are we still doing this, how

[–] thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

Cuz iz ez, am lazy