Dlzer – Independent App Reviews and Comparisons

When you change phones, your 2FA codes do not come with you

A TOTP secret lives on the device you scanned the QR code with. Two architectures, the work-account exception, and the order of operations that avoids the lockout.

What “free” actually means in a PDF scanner

Twelve scanner listings, four places a "free" app actually charges you, and a ten-minute test that tells you which one you installed.

Subscriptions hide in a different menu than purchases

A purchase is a record of something that already happened. A subscription is an authorisation for something that has not happened yet. They live in different menus, they are cancelled in different places, and only one of them keeps billing after you delete the app.

Setting a spending cap that the game cannot override

Free-to-play is a pipeline, not a price. Where to put the limit so a "Continue" button cannot reach it, and the five holes a cap leaves open.

Cable companion apps: what stops working when you cancel the TV package

Some companion apps need a subscription, some need an entitlement, some only need a box on your shelf. Which layer an app checks decides what breaks on the day you cancel.

Remote desktop is only as safe as the PC left switched on

Unattended access needs a live, signed-in, listening machine. Four links have to hold for a hijack — and a security-sheet walk-through of which ones you can actually break.