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ooOOOOooooo! Someone is behind on their protection money!
FTC: Uber, you have fine print and use dark patterns! Bad!
All other tech companies: Whistling intensifies
Ehh, the process of canceling UO involves 1) being at least 48h before your next renewal, which is mentioned nowhere except the cancelation flow, and 2) contacting cs and going through retention bullshit. VS the sign-up process being two presses.
Don't let 'good' be the enemy of 'perfect', or whatevet that saying is.
Sorry, I forgot this: /s
I've sent so many letters to my state's attorney general over Amazon signing me up for subscriptions without notice and authorization.
It's just a cost of business for them.
What subscription(s) did Amazon sign you up for that you didn't authorize?
If anyone in my household clicked a thumbnail of a video provider through Prime Video on the TV, it would auto-enroll into a limited free trial, then renew as a subscription. There was no notification to the viewer of this behavior, and no authorization/approval from the cardholder.
My recourse has been to go into an obscure corner of my account to cancel after every erroneous click. (I know of the PIN thing, but that's a headache for everyone; it should be a pin to purchase, not forced for all users.)
Somebody forgot to bribe Trump.
That the FTC is still continuing its mission unabated is the most surprising thing of this administration.
Very, very optimistic of you to assume this isn't just retaliation for something, or because Musk is planning some new rideshare company/arm of Tesla.
Well the Facebook and Google antitrust lawsuits have both been going since the Biden administration and Zuckerberg was at the inauguration and that lawsuit hasn't been stopped yet. Maybe the FTC still has some power? Or DOGE forgot about them (lol no) or DOGE just hasnt gotten to them yet.
I doubt well see the FTC sue Tesla anytime soon but if they can work on some of these other tech giants I welcome it.
I believe at least one of the anti-trust lawsuits Google lost was brought by the previous Trump Administration.
Really surprised the current government regime actually cares about this, because it's about scamming the populace.
So, it does look like the CEO of Proton was on to something.
muskrat still has that hallucination that everybody's gonna be riding around in fully-autonomous self-driving teslas, right? so that'd mean this case will be ''allowed'' to proceed.
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