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by countrpt 1y ago
Maybe some might feel that way at first, but it’s also an opportunity and responsibility to educate. This problem is why enterprise contractual agreements and large compliance systems exist for companies at this scale. Large hosting provide
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by countrpt 3y ago
Are… you really suggesting that the real problem here is not criminal extortion but that the payment approach isn’t safe enough to ensure their criminal associates get paid, and that this is what the feds should help improve?
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by countrpt 3y ago
It doesn’t need a cookie popup because they aren’t using cookies for non-essential reasons, similar to how it complies with GDPR because they aren’t collecting any data beyond what is necessary for the service’s stated purpose.
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by countrpt 3y ago
I don’t think any app store or payment provider would look fondly on a process that refunds that many transactions just because you want to turn around and double/triple the price. Credit card companies/payment gateways hate mass
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by countrpt 4y ago
It’s basically a “dark pattern,” especially when the UI gives different presets and highlights one as “recommended” even though that amount isn’t actually normal to locals. If nothing else it’s taking advantage of visitors who don’t actual
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by countrpt 4y ago
In Canada, almost everyone pays by debit or credit card instead of cash. What has happened in the last few years is that the tipping function has been enabled on debit/credit terminals at many more businesses than it used to be, inclu
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by countrpt 4y ago
There’s no reason to lie - the way it’s stated makes it clear that it is not, in fact, an estimate of the total number of bots on the platform. They never stated the number of bots on the platform and never claimed to. The stat they gave
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by countrpt 4y ago
There are many gacha games on the market today that do post their odds and where player-validated data seems to support it. (Some jurisdictions like China and Japan require these kinds of disclosures.) But there are also a lot of markets