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Breaking Free
- AxiomLab 8mo ago[flagged]
- oytis 8mo ago<nvm, accidentally talked to a bot>
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- oytis 8mo agoOh shit. Talking to a copypasta was less embarrassing
- just_once 8mo agoProud of myself for recognizing this was a bot without having to inspect further than this comment!
- Epa095 8mo agoFrom the english letter: To achieve a better digital world, where technology works for people rather than against them, several steps must be taken: 1. Rebalance power between service providers and consumers. People should be allowed to control their digital experiences and decide how they want to use products that they own. It should be possible and practical to switch to alternative service providers, or tweak services they already use to suit their needs and preferences. 2. Tackle dependency on Big Tech. To lay the groundwork for innovative products and services and pave the way for alternatives to Big Tech, competition in digital markets must be restored. Technology based on principles such as openness, interoperability and portability must be advanced through strategic investments. For example, the public sector should leverage its power as a major procurer to support alternatives to big tech through exploring options for ethical procurement of technology services. 3. Double down on the enforcement of existing laws. Far from hindering innovation, regulations provide crucial guardrails to guide innovation and ensure a level playing field. Weak enforcement allows big tech to continue its damaging practices at the cost of freedom of choice, service quality, and innovation. To remedy this, enforcement of existing laws must be strong and vigorous. This includes the DMA and competition laws more broadly, but also other digital rules such as the GDPR and consumer law. 4. Close the existing legal loopholes by adopting a strong Digital Fairness Act. Increase legal certainty and address loopholes in the legislation to better protect people for instance against deceptive and addictive design, and unfair personalisation.
- madspindel 8mo ago"Meta estimates that ten percent of the company’s annual revenue comes from fraudulent ads on its services – amounting to a dizzying 16 billion dollars. – Meta is earning billions from consumers being scammed. Even if the company gets fined – a process that takes years – the fines we have seen so far only amount to a fraction of these profits. In other words, Meta has no incentive to solve the problem. Meanwhile, the company doesn’t lift a finger to help its users, whether their profiles are misused in the scam ads, or they fall victim to the scams, Myrstad says. "
- nine_zeros 8mo ago[dead]
- notachatbot123 8mo agoWhere is that quote sourced?
- llm_nerd 8mo agohttps://www.forbrukerradet.no/news-in-english/digital-products-and-services-are-getting-worse-but-the-trend-can-be-reversed/#:~:text=In%20other%20words%2C%20Meta%20has,consumers%20and%20digital%20service%20providers: https://www.forbrukerradet.no/news-in-english/digital-produc... You can find the 10% from scam thing all over the place. ala- https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-is-earning-fortune-deluge-fraudulent-ads-documents-show-2025-11-06/ https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-is-earning-fortu...
- Nursie 8mo agoAnd somehow they are allowed to continue operating, and we accept them saying "we couldn't possibly actually police all this content! There's just too much of it. We're too large for such concerns!" I really wish the rest of us could turn around and say, to their faces "That sounds like a you problem"
- brador 8mo agoIt’s like fake products on Amazon. The numbers are jaw dropping, the punishment non existent. If a real store had that much fake stock it would be shut overnight.
- kruffalon 8mo agoIt is so nice to see that in reality there already are useful laws to combat enshittification, we just need to use them. It is also hopeful that publicly funded organisation asks for better governance rather than just bowing down. Obviously it is in the Zeitgeist to do this now, could (should) have been written 20years ago, but who would have listened?
- johnjames87 8mo ago[dead]
- skrebbel 8mo agoSeriously the production value on that video is way too good
- d-us-vb 8mo agoThe deadpan irony is on point. Something it seems the Norwegians have perfected. Another one of my favorite examples of this (an ad for Oslo tourism): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vhD59ac7nw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vhD59ac7nw
- colinprince 8mo agoI think a city should feel a little hard to get
- Sammi 8mo agoI mean that's fine I guess. But the best deadpan Norwegian sketch is kammelåså: https://youtu.be/s-mOy8VUEBk https://youtu.be/s-mOy8VUEBk
- skrebbel 8mo agoThe Javazone videos were legendary too, very similarly Norwegian and very similarly overproduced: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnqAXuLZlaE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnqAXuLZlaE
- schappim 8mo ago100%! I thought it was going to be way shittier. Suspect a budget > $1M was spent.
- renhanxue 8mo agoThe Norwegian Consumer Council's entire yearly budget is about 100M NOK, or about $9.5M USD at the current exchange rate. They most assuredly did not spend >$1M USD on a short video clip.
- ruralfam 8mo agoWow gotta agree. It was satire I think, but... not sure. Also the below link to the Oslo ad was also great. Thx for this, RF
- uzish 8mo agoWhat is a fraudulent ad? If a massive health influencer promotes a "healthy" powder that in labs does not show health benefits - do we consider it a fraudulent ad?
- jandrese 8mo agoOn Facebook? It's ads for products where they do a bait and switch or claim to have some kind of "difficulty" and never ship a product or ship some garbage instead. Example: My wife saw an ad for decorative skulls that were made in such a way that you can safely put them in a campfire for Halloween. They had a video and everything, it looked pretty good. She orders a set and they get delayed, then she gets and email saying that US Customs would not let them in the country and they instead ship a $0.50 plastic Christmas tree ornament instead and immediately ghost her. We reported the company to Facebook but it continued to run for weeks. I've also seen ads for $500 Aventon E-bike "closeout" that's clearly a scam, reported it, and had no action from Facebook. Another ad for an all metal "puzzle kit" of a V8 engine listed for $50 that I guarantee is fake. Every day I get ads that would not have passed the smell test from any reviewer yet continue to run.
- uzish 8mo agoDo you see this as different than the example I gave of a health influencer promoting a health powder with false claims?
- socalgal2 8mo agoI'm sure this will be downvoted but the fact that the front page of this site features photos of the organizers means to me, this is a promotional movement for these people, not a serious organization. Seeing their faces filling up large portions of the front page means the actual supposed point of their supposed purpose is being subverted for self promotion.
- em-bee 8mo agothe front page does not feature the organizers, it features links to a video and a seminar, and the seminar and the video happen to feature the speakers. featuring speakers of a seminar is what i expect, because i want to know who is talking.
- vivzkestrel 8mo ago- ubisoft is the greatest example of this in gaming - the fact that r/ubisoft doesnt have as many weekly visitors as r/fuckubisoft should tell you something is seriously seriously wrong with them
- julienreszka 8mo agoPublic funding was spent on this garbage?