When all else fails, the scare tactics return.

  • Heathcliff@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    arrow-down
    6
    ·
    2 days ago

    Exactly. I wouldn’t be surprised if some of those apps are using payment processors outside the EU to circumvent this. So assuming those apps are not warning the users for “no refunds”, who else is gonna give some kind of warning?

    I’m a EU citizen residing outside the EU, so my knowledge on this is not exactly up to date.

    • BrikoX@lemmy.zipOPM
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      17
      ·
      edit-2
      2 days ago

      I wouldn’t be surprised if some of those apps are using payment processors outside the EU to circumvent this.

      You misunderstood. It’s based on the country they are operating in (not where they are based). If they take payments from EU citizens, they are bound by EU law.

      • Heathcliff@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        arrow-down
        6
        ·
        edit-2
        2 days ago

        So theoretically that sounds great, but practically it would have to be Apple to kick those apps from the platform if the apps are not abiding EU law, or how does that work?

        • BrikoX@lemmy.zipOPM
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          9
          ·
          2 days ago

          If the app developer uses non-Apple payment processor, those refunds would be handled by that payment processor. The potencial app removal would be handled by Apple or alternative store it’s installed from.

          • Heathcliff@lemm.ee
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            1
            arrow-down
            3
            ·
            2 days ago

            Yet still, is it then so wrong to warn a user beforehand that the payment processor isn’t going to be Apple? I’m not sure what your idea is that the EU should do here? No warning from anyone seems to be a recipe for scamming.

            • BrikoX@lemmy.zipOPM
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              10
              ·
              edit-2
              2 days ago

              It implies that Apple payment system is the only “private and secure payment system”. Which is false, as we covered every single payment processor operating in the EU (as in allowed to take payments from EU citizens) is private and secure as that’s a requirement for them to even be able to operate in the first place.

              If the warning was “App uses external payment processor”. That would have been a different story, no?

        • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyz
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          5
          ·
          2 days ago

          No it wouldn’t need to be Apple.

          If a payment processor won’t comply, you can ask for a chargeback at your bank, and if it keeps happening, the payment processor can be blocked from accepting EU payments at all.

          • Heathcliff@lemm.ee
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            2
            arrow-down
            3
            ·
            edit-2
            2 days ago

            What you’ve quoted isn’t what I asked.

            Edit: Seems users here are too immature for any discussion other than blind hate.

            • loki@piefed.social
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              1
              arrow-down
              1
              ·
              2 days ago

              It’s always fun to see cult members break down when they have no arguments and call everyone else crazy…

    • Shiggles@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      7
      ·
      2 days ago

      “exactly”

      follows up with the exact opposite of the comment

      And you say the american education system is the problem.