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I’m not a lawyer either. I was thinking that this may fall under false advertising [0]. That is, claiming N people are interested in the product/service while t
by drclau 5y ago
I’m not a lawyer either. I was thinking that this may fall under false advertising [0]. That is, claiming N people are interested in the product/service while that information is clearly made up.
To be clear, I’m referring to an implementation that just uses a number that looks good, disconnected from any sort of metrics.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_advertising https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_advertising
- rsstack 5y agoFalse advertising is narrower than some people would like it to be.
- techcode 5y agoIndeed it's both not ethical not legal in most parts of the world. My educated guess it that only reason it happens anywhere at all - is within "smaller" websites/companies which: a) don't know better because they are mostly just tech people that didn't heave to deal with big company bureaucracy, they have no legal/ethics team - or (hopefully not big chunk) they do know it's not legal, but count on ... b) they are small enough that no one bothers to deal with until amount of money company is making suddenly makes it go over whatever amount makes it worth the effort