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Yandex.The browser has learned to warn about mobile subscriptions

Yandex.The browser began to warn about the resources on the Internet that sign user on a paid mobile services. Seeing the warning, people will be able to avoid unnecessary spending.

Pages with paid subscriptions is quite common in the mobile Internet phenomenon. They can be accessed, for example, if you search online for music or movies. The text that the paid content on this page may be typed in small letters, or to merge with the background of the site, so it is easy to miss. The person clicks “View” or “Listen”, and as a result connect is a paid service. Sometimes the user doesn’t even understand what happened — because it didn’t ask to enter phone number or enter the code SMS.

Yandex.The browser warns you about possible write-downs in advance. If a person really wants to subscribe to the service, he will be able to continue to buy, but if it all happened by accident, he will have the opportunity to opt out.

“In support of Yandex complaints often come from people connected paid services accidentally, — says Roman Ivanov, head of Yandex.Browser. — The first measures to protect the users of Yandex in the spring of 2015: we then started to decrease in the issuance of sites that impose a subscription unfair methods. Now we have added Yandex.The browser warning about subscriptions — it, unlike the texts on the pages of some content providers, it is impossible not to notice”.

The system alerts mobile subscriptions included in the complex Protect the built-in Yandex.Browser. It protects the user data even in open Wi-Fi networks, warns against phishing sites and malicious code and automatically checks downloaded files for viruses.

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Warning about subscriptions works in Yandex.Browser for Windows, OS X and iOS and in beta for Android Browser.

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