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Top anonymous social app NGL forced to stop tricking its users

Top anonymous social app NGL forced to stop tricking its users

August 4, 2022 Sarah Perez 233 Viewsapp-store, Apple, Apps, cloning, computing, developer tools, developers, imessage, Instagram, iOS apps, mobile applications, NGL, operating systems, scam, Snapchat, Software, Teens 4 min read

A popular anonymous social app that was misleading its users with fake messages has been forced to change. The top-ranked app NGL, which became the No. 1 app on the U.S. App Store in June, quietly rolled out an update yesterday that sees it now informing users when they receive messages that aren’t from their […]

This Week in Apps: French developers sue Apple, time spent in apps grows, Instagram adds NFTs

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This Week in Apps: Elon wants out, TikTok’s content ratings, a new milestone for subscription revenue

July 16, 2022 Sarah Perez 220 Viewsandroid apps, app stores, Apple, Apps, AR, augmented reality, data, dating, developers, Facebook, families, giphy, Google, google search, Google-Maps, Instagram, iOS apps, kids, Match Group, meta, Mobile, mobile apps, Netflix, NGL, parents, Reddit, sensor tower, social, social media, social networking, streaming, streaming service, Teens, This Week In Apps, TikTok, Twitter, YouTube 19 min read

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. Global app spending reached $65 billion in the first half of 2022, up only slightly from the $64.4 billion during the same period in 2021, as hypergrowth fueled by […]

Not gonna lie, this NGL lawsuit is kinda juicy

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Not gonna lie, this NGL lawsuit is kinda juicy

July 15, 2022 Sarah Perez 222 Viewsanonymous, anonymous apps, anonymous social, app-store, Apple, Apps, california, computing, Contractor, gen z, Google, head, imessage, Instagram, internet culture, iOS apps, Mobile, mobile applications, NGL, Raj Vir, rice, scams, Snapchat, Software, Software Engineer, technology, Teens 7 min read

The anonymous Q&A app NGL climbed to the top of the App Store by tricking its users with questions it claims are sent in by their friends and by charging for useless hints about who supposedly wrote those messages. But many of the questions users receive aren’t from real people; they’re generated automatically — an […]