Apple Settles Family Sharing Subscription Lawsuit - MacRumors (www.macrumors.com)

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[-] nocturne213@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

Apple has agreed to settle a class action lawsuit over Family Sharing, and will pay out $25 million to put an end to the case. First filed in 2019, the lawsuit accused Apple of misrepresenting the way that subscriptions to third-party apps worked with the Family Sharing feature.

While Family Sharing allows participants to share subscriptions with one another, app developers can opt out of allowing a single subscription to be shared among multiple people. Not all subscriptions can be shared because of the opt out policy, which is what led to the lawsuit.

[-] averyminya@beehaw.org 1 points 11 months ago

Hm, would Google be in a similar position with their family sharing system? From my understanding there is a similar thing in place, but I'm not sure if it includes subscriptions or not.

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