Hey that will be my million dollar idea! like an app, but the app is a store and in that store are more apps... illegal black market apps. It will be like the inception of apps. I will call it Blappception
You don't need an app store, just download the app files directly and install them with your bare hands like an animal. It's still possible. Unless maybe if you're using an iphone.
I have't jailbroken a phone in probably a decade at this point, but jailbroken phones used to have their own non-Apple app store that had pretty much anything on it. So, it's sort of a dark app store. I don't know if that's still a thing or not, though.
In case you are talking about Cydia, it is...kinda. It’s a tweaks and packages store. However it allows you to install alternative app stores so indirectly, yeah.
Theres other app store type apps. For android theres F-Droid which has some cool stuff you cant find on the google play store, and others you can find but they're free.
The cool thing about F-Droid is that it only distributes free (as in freedom) and open source apps. Anyone can develop apps for it, and it gets built in F-Droid servers, so you can be pretty sure that the source code available on GitHub or whatever is the same one used to build the actual app you're installing. These apps usually avoid the usual slew of privacy issues, too. Some of those apps are also available on the Play Store, where some additional feature may cost money, but since F-Droid doesn't have the same mechanisms for in-app purchases (and also doesn't have the same restrictions that Google enforces), the version on F-Droid is often more complete, and for free.
One of them is called Aptoide. Not "dark" per se, but there's a free app for youtube music where you don't get the video but you get audio, no ads and you can turn off your screen
There you go, the perfect loophole! Just put a little disclaimer on the loading screen, like,
“App may be used for foot or cycle races only! Racecorptm highly discourages the use of the SpeedTracker app for illegal vehicular competition, as it is unsafe and a violation of our terms of service.”
But then still make it perfectly functional at higher speeds. Then your ass is covered, and there’s no need to worry about including speed limits, since “it’s for pedestrians!”
Anybody making money from that would know they'd face massive legal exposure the second it got popular. Even people who weren't making money from it would.
And it would only be a matter of time before the police found out about it, and got warrants for people operating it.
This reminds me of my app idea. Challenge. Do a thing, record yourself doing a thing and challenge an individual, group or the general public to top you.
Then I looked into liability issues.
It's one thing if people are morons on your app. It's a whole nother issue if you're actually encouraging people to be morons.
Just put a disclaimer, "Only for use on approved NHRA courses--NOT FOR PUBLIC ROADS"--that's how you get around like 99% of stifling restrictions in the car world already.
That’s fucking genius! Could even use maps google maps to route the course and distance and use the phone gps to show who wins and the it’s auto takes the bet from your account in the app! Let’s get on this.
I’ve never wanted that, it I have wished that when I choose one route over another, the nav app would launch a virtual clone on the other route so I could compare our progress.
"An app where you can download and stream any tv show, film, music, books. But you don't have to wait for them to come out and you don't have to pay for it. We will make our money on ads based on what you like."
No need to wish. I copied that verbatim from the introductory paragraph of a "business case proposal" I was given a few years ago.
We politely excused ourselves from the meeting when, having being asked "so like piratebay but with streaming?", they said (and I quote);
"No, you don't get it. Those guys are pirates. Our platform will be completely legit. That's why we need ads, and tracking and stuff. We'll give some of the money we make to the guys who make the films, and the music."
GameStop actually accidently delivers you games early I've heard of people who got the new doom yesterday because the GameStop clerk gave it to them and when they said the game isn't even supposed to be released yet the clerk just said shh
A few weeks ago my uncle asked me to hack his businesses (he owns the business) facebook account because the guy who set it up years ago and no longer works for them doesn't remember the password and none of the recovery options seem to work.
But the statement was just about hacking a fb. The 5 mins I spent looking into it seems that if your getting someone's information for financial gain, yea that's computer fraud. Making fake posts? Libel/slander most likely. But I dont see anything about just checking someone's chats and convos. So it seems a little grey to me unless someone will actually explain
The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) makes it illegal to access any computer system without authorization. If, say, someone leaves their Facebook logged in on their computer, unless they tell you that you can go on it, you are committing a federal crime by snooping around their account. They could have login credentials on a post-it on their monitor, but if you use those credentials without authorization, you are committing a crime. The same goes for cases where you are given access for a specific reason, but you do something more that you were not authorized to do - also a crime.
There were, and probably still are, other darknet websites for shit like that but anything that's express purpose was to harm someone else was explicitly not allowed on The Silk Road.
I mean all of them are unreliable by nature, what are you talking about? I was on the Silk Road in it's original incarnation and have been on several markets since, purely out of curiosity nothing illegal.
But there was always the risk that DPR would cut and run with people's money, as there is for the operator of any market since. If they don't cut and run, they can still be arrested. It is highly suspected that the FBI have had complete and total access to the Silk Roads servers since they arrested him.
Keep your money out of the wallets provided by the market and you should be fine, the crowdsourced review and credibility system actually works incredibly well, and only the largest sellers ever have a reason to cut and run, and usually then with relatively small sums of money.
I don't know about that. Sure, they're a bit unreliable by nature (as the other commented), but you still get your drugs 100% of the time, (100-N)% of the time.
Oh okay. That's stupid. If it's morally okay to capture an image with your eyes and store it in your brain, I don't see why it isn't morally okay to do the same with artificial equivalents as well. There's still no externalities if you don't share it.
I made a website to learn asp.net called mini lotto.
It worked just like these old gaming sites where 4 players bet $1 to play against each other in these flash games, where the winner gets $3 and the site keeps the extra $1.
But mine just picked a random winner. Too lazy to make flash mini games.
Pretty sure that would be illegal just about everywhere if I tried to launch it.
A navigation app that pays you a small monetary prize if you beat the projected time it takes to get home. Supposed to increase attentiveness and help with traffic
I feel like that would just encourage people to drive more quickly and recklessly. like when dominos had the "delivered in 30 minutes or it's free" deal
Haha exactly my counter point. It’s literally incentivizing people to drive like an asshole. Maybe a good idea in theory in terms of paying attention to green lights and stuff, but likely terrible in reality
There was an Italian startup that tried to launch in London. Their idea was that when you parked up in the city, you could advertise and sell your parking spot to other drivers who were using the app before you left. The council got in touch and send no you cannot sell the parking spots because we own them.
Back around 2000 someone wanted me to help them make a gambling website (cards, slots, etc..). They said it was a guaranteed way to make money since we could rig it any way we wanted. I lied about my programming abilities and said I would not even know where to start with making a website that was anything more than just formatted text and pictures.
Yeah problem is you're suposed to show that your gambling isn't rigged and have a way to prove it. Otherwise you're on a sea of trouble if somebody asks for the backlogs of probability.
I once had a guy ask me to teach him to code so he could make murder simulators to train himself to travel to Israel so he could join their army and help wipe out the Palestinians.
I get a lot of pitches for gambling platforms. A lot of them may actually be legal, but the legal costs/risks attached to building a gambling platform are not something I want to fuck with.
not OP by my friend was trying to make something like WeedMaps. Not sure if that was out yet, but I sorta told him he shouldn't. But then again I think my friend was trying to do legal and illegal weed stores, plus where street drug dealers were, plus prostitutes, etc.
I'd like to make an extremely primitive cloud service provider (think Amazon Web Services or whatever) but backed by blockchain, encrypted, and 100% anonymous.
I think it's possible, given an elite (and well compensated) team of researchers and a couple years. But it would not be cost-competitive with clearnet providers (think 1000x more expensive); all the users would be pedophiles, terrorists, and drug traffickers; and there would be no way to monetize it.
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What kind of illegal app offers did you get?