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Question about trialpay offers

dollphat

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I've noticed that some games I play have promotions such as "install and try some app for free coins/stars/currency". (I think it might be called trialpay). One of the terms is that you're a new user for that app. So even if you have tried the particular app before and deleted it you are not eligible for that offer.
I've tried lots of games and have completed these offers when playing different games. So I was wondering if there was a way to maybe delete that data or something.
Hope this makes sense. Thanks!
 
If I'm not mistaken, "Trial Pay" Is when you complete a series of offers, usually by creating an account and signing up with certain vendors or by doing surveys, in place of actual payment.

I think you are talking about trial offers.
Usually trial offers are when you download and install a program that requires payment for a full version with the understanding of having paid access to the program for a limited time in hopes that you like it enough to buy it.

Vendors will often offer a discount for the program once the trial period ends permitting the item license or key is bought in a reasonable amount of time at the ending period.

On a PC, these programs usually install a registry entry as an identifier so If the program is removed and re-installed, the program can call on that entry to check for traces of the program, which It would do upon program start up.

If they were easy to circumvent, no one would ever buy a program and the vendor likely wouldn't have a trial version of the program available.

They probably do something similar on phones.

You can always switch google accounts in play store to see if that may work, but again, what would he the point of having the feature if it were that easy to get by?
 
The data is usually held on servers online. Every phone and Google account has a unique identifier. So even if you do a factory reset, and come back with the same unique identifier, it's sorry you've already been here and had your trial offer and entitlement of coins, or whatever it is is.

Androids don't have a central registry that can be used to store and hide things in the same way that Windows does. So the only way that apps can store data on the device is in their own files and folders, which can very easily be deleted, by doing clear cache and data from settings, or are completely blown away when the device is factory reset.
 
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