您是否会以每月 45 美元的价格订阅手电筒应用程序，尤其是在有数十种免费替代方案可用的情况下？这篇文章谈论的是Fleeceware！什么是羊毛制品以及如何保护自己免受羊毛制品的侵害(Fleeceware)。
什么是羊毛制品？
Fleeceware 应用程序让您感到毛骨悚然！
这些不能被称为恶意软件，因为羊毛软件应用程序不会安装病毒或类似于您的计算机和/或手机的东西。然而，它们是恶意的，在获得您的法律同意的情况下，它们会向您收取极高的费用（一次性或每月）。我称之为法律同意，因为在接受和安装应用程序之前，我们很少真正通过条款和条件(T&C) 页面。(terms and conditions)吨
在其他情况下，您知道即使从手机中删除应用程序后，您仍将被收费，但您不知道如何停止它。这是因为应用程序的订阅不会仅仅通过从您的计算机或手机上卸载它而终止。而且由于您接受了条款和条件，因此在您真正取消订阅正在计费的应用程序或服务之前，您无法停止付款。
有两种类型的羊毛制品：
- 在购买时或试用期结束时收取高额费用的一种
- 即使您从设备上卸载了该应用程序，另一种类型的羊毛制品也会每月向您收费。
如何保护自己免受羊毛软件应用程序的侵害？
一个普遍的看法是，如果有什么东西是昂贵的，它会提供更好的服务。这种想法应该首先消失，因为有低成本甚至免费的替代品以更好的方式提供相同的服务。
第二件事是停止冲动购买。例如，在浏览Play 商店(Play Store)时，您会看到对应用程序的精美描述并购买了它，甚至不知道他们会如何向您收取使用他们的应用程序的费用。由于这些应用程序不需要任何与您Google帐户上的钱卡分开的钱卡，因此您可能会因无知而赔钱。因为您的卡对帐单中的费用不会提供有关交易的许多详细信息，所以您不知道应用程序制造商向您收取了费用。
收费分为三种：
- 一次性收费
- 月费
- 两个都
一些摇粒绒应用程序只会让您摇摆一次：当您安装应用程序时。通常(Often)，此类应用程序是试用软件，试用期非常短，例如三天。他们不会通知您试用期到期并继续向您收费。
其他摇粒绒应用程序按月或按年收费。这些很难摆脱。您会在信用卡对帐单上看到收费，但找不到向您收费的人。此类应用程序甚至不会在从您的卡中扣款之前/之后向您发送账单/发票。
当您意识到费用可能与您安装到计算机或手机上的应用程序有关并继续从您的设备上卸载它时。但是下个月您的信用卡账单上又会出现类似类型的费用。这样的羊毛制品制造商依赖于用户的数字文盲。一般人不会理解收费，因为他或她没有花足够的时间来研究应用程序使用的条款和条件。通过下载这样的应用程序，您同意该应用程序的开发人员的计费系统。
知道(Know)从设备上卸载应用程序和取消订阅是两件不同的事情。因为大多数拥有手机和平板电脑的人对技术知之甚少，他们不知道如何取消订阅，而这正是 Fleeceware 让你毛骨悚然的弱点。
为了保护自己免受羊毛软件应用程序的侵害：
- 始终阅读应用说明中的细则以及该应用的条款和条件
- 检查应用程序的基本费用是否过高。如果您可以免费或以非常低的成本获得数十个类似的应用程序，那么您真的不需要付费的手电筒应用程序
- 如果您希望开发人员停止向您收费，请不要简单地从您的设备中删除该应用程序；相反，取消订阅
- 如果您不知道如何取消订阅已删除的应用程序，请向某人询问路线；您也有可能重新安装该应用程序，并且该应用程序有一个取消订阅按钮，您可以在将其从设备中删除之前使用该按钮。
- 始终从Android Play Store或 iOS AppStore安装/下载应用程序；不是这些市场告诉你羊毛制品，而是因为风险很低
以上解释了什么是羊毛制品以及如何保护自己免受羊毛制品的伤害。
What is Fleeceware? How to protect yourself from Fleeceware apps?
Will you subscribe to a torchlight app at $45 per month, especially when there are dozens of free alternatives available? This article talks about Fleeceware! What is fleeceware and how to protect yourself from Fleeceware.
What is Fleeceware?
Fleeceware apps fleece you!
These cannot be called malware because fleeceware apps don’t install a virus or something similar to your computer and/or phone. They are malicious nevertheless, in a way that they charge you an extremely high fee – onetime or monthly – with your legal consent. I call it legal consent because rarely we ever really go through terms and conditions (T&C) page before accepting and installing the apps. T
In other cases, you know that you will be and are being charged for an app even after removing it from your phone, but you don’t know how to stop it. This is because the subscription of the app doesn’t terminate just by uninstalling it from your computer or phone. And since you accepted the terms and conditions, you cannot stop the payment until you actually unsubscribe from the app or service that is being billed.
There are two types of fleeceware:
- One that charges high fees once, at the time of purchase, or at the end of the trial period
- The other type of fleeceware is the one that charges you every month even if you uninstall the app from your device.
How to protect yourself from fleeceware apps?
A common perception is that if anything is costly, it provides better services. Such thought thing should go away first because there are low cost or even free alternatives providing the same service in a better way.
The second thing is to stop buying on impulse. While browsing through the Play Store, for example, you see this beautiful description of an app and you buy it without even knowing how they’ll charge you for using their app. Since these apps do not require any money card separate from the one you have on your Google account, you may lose money by ignorance. Because the charge in your card statement won’t give many details about the transaction so you don’t know that the app makers charged you.
There are three types of charges:
- One-time charge
- Monthly Charges
- Both
Some fleeceware apps fleece you only once: when you install the app. Often such apps are trialware and come with a very small trial period like three days. They will not notify you about the trial period expiry and proceed to bill you.
Other fleeceware apps charge monthly or yearly. These are hard to get rid of. You see charges on your credit card statement, but you can’t locate who charged you. Such apps don’t even send you bills/invoices before/after deducting money from your card.
When you realize that the charge could be related to the app you installed to your computer or phone and proceed to uninstall it from your device. But next month again sees a charge of a similar type on your card statement. Such fleeceware manufacturers count on the digital illiteracy of users. An average person won’t understand the charge because he or she did not take enough time to study the terms and conditions of the app usage. By downloading such an app, you give your approval to the billing system of developers of that app.
Know that uninstalling the app from device and unsubscribing are two different things. Because most people with phones and tablets do not know much about technicalities, they don’t know how to unsubscribe, and this is the weak point that enables fleeceware to fleece you.
To protect yourself from fleeceware apps:
- Always read the fine print in the app description and under Terms and Conditions of that app
- Check out if the base charge of the app is too high. You don’t really need a paid torchlight app if you can get dozens of similar apps at no or very low cost
- If you want the developers to stop charging you, don’t simply remove the app from your device; instead, unsubscribe
- If you don’t know how to unsubscribe an app that you removed, ask someone for directions; it could also be possible that you reinstall the app and the app has an unsubscribe button that you can use before removing it from your device.
- Always install/download apps from either Android Play Store or iOS AppStore; not that these markets tell you about fleeceware but because the risk is low
The above explains what is fleeceware and how to protect yourself from fleeceware.
