Apple is about to kill Sparrow Wallet on macOS. The deadline is June 30.
Since 2023, more than a dozen fake "Sparrow" apps have appeared on Apple's App Store. Users have lost their savings, in some c...
I know it's not quite the same but it reminds me a lot of the etsy/regretsy thing.
There was a website dedicated to "expectations vs reality" kinds of etsy orders. The website creator noticed that there were a lot of copies of things that were supposedly handmade, like mass amounts of "handmade" items. She went on a campaign of awareness of resellers that were copying actual creators and mass producing things without paying for the artist's original work. Etsy started banning the accounts of people supporting her efforts because they had work stolen. The copy/resellers got no such ban.
There was a website dedicated to "expectations vs reality" kinds of etsy orders. The website creator noticed that there were a lot of copies of things that were supposedly handmade, like mass amounts of "handmade" items. She went on a campaign of awareness of resellers that were copying actual creators and mass producing things without paying for the artist's original work. Etsy started banning the accounts of people supporting her efforts because they had work stolen. The copy/resellers got no such ban.
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