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They don't care cost of doing business. Internet is an advertising and marketing platform with all the downsides of that. Part of the function of an advertising
by x5n1 10y ago
They don't care cost of doing business. Internet is an advertising and marketing platform with all the downsides of that. Part of the function of an advertising marketing platform is to gather as much information about users to sell them stuff. That's what pays for billion dollar valuations. This is not going away.
- 55555 10y agoA lot of it could go away with better consumer protection laws and enforcement. I'm not sure why this country puts up with deceptive negative-option rebills. They should just show the sales funnel to 100 random citizens, and ask them how much they think they are going to be charged after going through it. If more than 50 people get the answer wrong, what you are doing is obviously deceptive (Yes this would include things like mortgages and credit card fees).
- uxp 10y agoBecause one person or company that is bound to lose millions of dollars, or their entire business model (deceptive advertising and marketing, for one) has more of an incentive to lobby against a regulation than a million unorganized people that might lose 25 or 30 dollars over signing up for a difficult to cancel "membership".