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This app auto-sends Game of Thrones spoilers to your enemies

A SMARTPHONE app inspired by some particularly nasty breakup revenge has GOT fans running scared.

Game of Thrones stills. Picture: Foxtel
Game of Thrones stills. Picture: Foxtel

SPOILERS are coming — and it might ruin friendships!

People can now pay a small fee — $0.99 — to send Game of Thrones spoilers to their friends thanks to a new app called spoiled.io.

“Do your friends love Game of Thrones, but watch it after it airs? Are you a terrible friend? Great!” the app teases on the description on its site.

The evil app works by letting users add in their pals’ mobile phone numbers, which allows it to “anonymously and ruthlessly” send texts to them right after each episode airs.

Are you this evil?
Are you this evil?

In one sample text, the app sent out a picture from season six second episode, which included a big reveal about Kit Harington’s character Jon Snow.

The previous season ended with Snow being butchered by his fellow members of the Night’s Watch, a group of misfits and criminals who guard the Seven Kingdoms.

But thanks to the app, some people learned before they watched the show that — spoiler alert — Snow was revived.

“Jon Snow lives!!!” the app texted with a photo of the character opening his eyes while lying naked and still wounded on a table.

“I don’t know who you are, but you just ruined Game of Thrones for me,” the friend wrote back.

And to make it worse, after ruining the show, the app tweets “victim responses.”

“F**K,” one fuming victim wrote after receiving a rundown of everything that happened in the penultimate ‘Battle of the Bastards’ episode last Sunday.

The app’s developer was inspired to create the app after a man complained in a now-viral Reddit post back in May that his scorned ex-girlfriend texted him every Monday, the morning after a new episode aired, to tell him spoilers.

“I tried to ask her to stop but she blocks me immediately after she sends the message,” the rattled boyfriend wrote.

The highly anticipated season six finale of HBO’s Emmy-winning fantasy series airs next week.

Game of Thrones Season 6 Episode 10 preview

This article appeared in the New York Post and was published here with permission.

Originally published as This app auto-sends Game of Thrones spoilers to your enemies

Original URL: https://www.themercury.com.au/technology/gadgets/this-app-autosends-game-of-thrones-spoilers-to-your-enemies/news-story/55320d53858b395288514be8acc758ab