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Introduction

Back in July 2014 I once writ a post about an exploitative app that was on the windows store back when I used to have a PC that could use the store and thankfully thanks to reaching out to Pandora representatives it was wiped pretty quickly.

I have since made big changes to the article in order to save space and make it seem less outdated by looking back on it (updated as of March 2019).

So What Was It?

Essentially back when the Windows Store was relatively new it was a pretty messy place (and probably still is) and it was hard to tell what was official or not and in many cases sites with online presence would be exploited. That’s where the Pandora app came in.

The first problem was simply the fact that it wasn’t official and while I can honestly ignore things like that if it were a good app but it isn’t despite what its 4 star ranking implied, in fact it couldn’t have been made any lazier. Just have a look at what you get below.

Sorry for the lack of quality, wasn’t going to waste space on it.

So ignoring the fact that I’m not from the US and therefore can’t use Pandora* you can see that all the creators of the app have done was grab the web version of Pandora and place it into a box surrounded by banner adverts whilst immediately asking for money to remove them which as a few of the reviews suggested didn’t actually do anything simply being a way to steal money from gullible people.

Obviously this sort of thing is not only disgusting but highly illegal so of course I (along with other people) set to get this wiped from existence once it was found and thankfully it took a mere day for word that Pandora themselves were doing something about it and not that long after it was completely gone from the store.

Sadly this didn’t stop other people trying to do this and since I haven’t been able to check the store for a long time (since my PC is crappy) I can only imagine how many more people are trying to do this sort of thing.

*Note that Non-American/Canadian people used to be able to use a VPN to trick Pandora into thinking that they were from one of the two though since I have not tried to use the app for quite some time I don’t know if its still a thing.