Comment by nerdjon

4 years ago

Again you are saying something very different here than any of your marketing.

If you want to make the choice to stop watching porn, that is fine. If you want to use software like this and you want to ask your spouse to help, that is fine.

But your marketing, your google play listing that I quoted it is not you making the choice. It is someone else "protecting" you and making the choice.

Quoting an exact quote from your google play listing. The very first sentence:

"Truple protects your loved ones against porn & other online filth. It holds your loved ones accountable in a way that's near impossible to bypass by capturing and sharing screenshots."

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TedDoesntTalk  4 years ago

What if it said:

"Truple holds YOU accountable in a way that's near impossible to bypass by capturing and sharing screenshots."

  • nerdjon  4 years ago

    Then at least what the OP is saying here and what the marketing said would align.

    But at this time, there is one story of what this app does here (hacker news) and a completely different story from what is being told on the website and marketing.

    The other apps that they are saying had no issues with approval, follow the story that is being told here.

    I don't think it changes the problematic nature of the app. But they are claiming to be the same as the other app but there is a dramatic difference in how the capabilities of the app is communicated to Apple and users.

    • camhart  4 years ago

      https://web.archive.org/web/20190424203239/https://truple.io... is the landing page when the original version of the app was submitted for notarization. Since you're digging into the ad copy, we might as well be looking at the appropriate website.

      It's not two stories... I include customer reviews on my landing page that show spouses, individuals, and parents feedback because all benefit from it.

      The Google Play app description is adjusted to be more in alignment with Google Play Developer Agreement policies.

      To clarify, keeping Google, Apple, and everyone else happy with the wording in the marketing seems to demand walking a razers edge. I've done my best to comply appropriately for each platform. It's a disservice to the conversation for you to pull in the Google Play listing, make accusations about me/Truple as a result, and not have the full picture. I've shared more in this post than I originally cared to in order to provide the bigger picture. I'm not trying to hide anything here, but there are reasons other than malicious intent for why things are worded the way they are and instead of leaping to those conclusions you could instead ask why.

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