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is there anything surprising about this? it's been apparent for a while that free-to-play games are the 1-900 numbers of the 21st century. the only difference is that instead of someone speed reading "kids get your parents' permission before calling" at the end of a tv commercial the disclaimer is buried in a 40 page eula
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Jan 25, 2019 18:42
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graph posted:buzzfeed news us desk all got laid off today the opinion desk at huffpo got closed yesterday that was the section they opened this time last year in order to stop using unpaid contributors
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Jan 25, 2019 18:47
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PCjr sidecar posted:also living in Actual Detroit you get to pay insane auto insurance (like > $5K a year) The way sos handles proof of insurance is insane too. The state does not pull registration or get notifidd electronically when cancel insurance. And mi is not part of the drivers license compact so you have people with suspended licdnses in other states getting a mi license. In areas like detroit it is common for people to pay for one month of insuranc, renew, then cancel the rest of the year because of the insane cost. So you have a ton of uninsured drivers
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Jan 25, 2019 18:55
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buzzfeed finally reaching respectable media status
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Jan 25, 2019 18:58
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Jan 25, 2019 19:20
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The_Franz posted:is there anything surprising about this? it's been apparent for a while that free-to-play games are the 1-900 numbers of the 21st century. the only difference is that instead of someone speed reading "kids get your parents' permission before calling" at the end of a tv commercial the disclaimer is buried in a 40 page eula not that the onus should be on a parent and death2facebook n pinstagram et al, but it seems like some white people really do the least amount of parenting possible and then surprised.
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Jan 25, 2019 19:44
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Xaris posted:it seems not letting your 10 year old have your credit card is a smart thing to do? most of these stories involve stored cc info and the kid is just pushing the auto-buy button over and over and never gets challenged. if you could do that with a 1-900 number there would absolutely have been the same sort of horror stories
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DELETE CASCADE posted:zuck comes to your house and kills you with a stun gun and a knife, then eats you https://twitter.com/_danilo/status/1088871785502855173
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Xaris posted:I dunno I think 1-900 is still worse because there’s less barrier to entry. I don’t know about kids these days but when I was growing up it’s not like I had access to my parents credit cards readily to buy thousands of dollars of refrigerator floss-dancing hats or w/e. it seems not letting your 10 year old have your credit card is a smart thing to do? essentially all of these purchases are done with stored credit cards on the parent's iphone. the parents presumably check the "stop asking for my fingerprint all the time" box and aren't aware that the games allow in-app payments. certainly they aren't aware that you can spend thousands of dollars on a stupid pet shop game for 8 year olds or whatever. i feel like it's ripe for some legislation along the lines of how non-compete contracts and unreadable EULAs are starting to be considered unenforceable. it is unreasonable to expect people to know that a "free" video game could allow a child to make tens of thousands of dollars in credit card charges in a matter of minutes, and hide the charges behind a "press here to get 10 golden retriever puppies now!" button to boot, and a proper legal system should recognize that and build protections against it. but this is america, so
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Jan 25, 2019 20:14
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buzzfeed, more like pissfeed
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Jan 25, 2019 20:20
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Sagebrush posted:it is unreasonable to expect people to know that a "free" video game could allow a child to make tens of thousands of dollars in credit card charges in a matter of minutes
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Jan 25, 2019 20:41
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mystes posted:Not to say that this is sufficient, but I imagine that's why both apple and google explicitly note when apps have in-app purchases in their stores. Obviously you still wouldn't expect the charges to be that high, but probably they decided that this is the absolutely minimum in the store to have credit card companies side with them or something. does facebook do that too?
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Jan 25, 2019 20:44
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apple also got sued over that so they cracked down and changed os features so accidental sneak purchases are much harder
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Jan 25, 2019 20:45
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it's less about documentation and more about what a reasonable person would expect. this is the same reason that no-compete clauses are now illegal in california -- because no reasonable person would agree to a contract that says "you can't work in the same field in which you are an expert for the next 5 years" or whatever. even if they signed their name to it, it's stupid and ridiculous. like, a more blatant example would be that even if you sign a contract saying i can punch you in the balls, it's still illegal for me to punch you in the balls. telling the person "this game lets you make purchases after the fact" is not a sufficient legal defense against the game charging you tens of thousands of dollars, because no one expects a game to cost that much. it's ridiculous and unreasonable.
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Sagebrush posted:like, a more blatant example would be that even if you sign a contract saying i can punch you in the balls, it's still illegal for me to punch you in the balls. i thought we'd be beyond kink shaming in yospos by now
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Trabisnikof posted:does facebook do that too?
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Imagine giving your credit card to facebook. lol
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Jan 25, 2019 20:59
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BMan posted:Imagine giving your credit card to facebook. lol i looked it up and oh of course, on mobile facebook can just bill your carrier for you, no password or credit card required: 
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Jan 25, 2019 21:02
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HAIL eSATA-n posted:imagine giving any info to Facebook
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it's impressive that all the worst case nightmare scenarios for social media and malicious actors having your credit card info from back in the late 90s early 2000s are just straight up how facebook does business. like, they watched the net and decided that was an instruction manual
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Jan 25, 2019 21:39
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Sagebrush posted:essentially all of these purchases are done with stored credit cards on the parent's iphone. the parents presumably check the "stop asking for my fingerprint all the time" box and aren't aware that the games allow in-app payments. certainly they aren't aware that you can spend thousands of dollars on a stupid pet shop game for 8 year olds or whatever.
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The_Franz posted:is there anything surprising about this? it's been apparent for a while that free-to-play games are the 1-900 numbers of the 21st century. the only difference is that instead of someone speed reading "kids get your parents' permission before calling" at the end of a tv commercial the disclaimer is buried in a 40 page eula My friends and I used to call the sexy 1-900 numbers from public phones as a way of getting a cheap (free) thrill.
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Jan 25, 2019 22:04
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https://twitter.com/businessinsider/status/1088910829016223745 nerd houses oh man quote:His house known as Villa Simonyi, or the "Windows 2000 House," because it has 2,000 windows.
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Jan 25, 2019 22:34
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oh man i was hoping for some up close shots of the ellison weebmansion
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Jan 25, 2019 22:35
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why would Facebook have engineers on staff?
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barefeet are legal people are my favs even more so than pitbull people
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incels interlinked posted:https://twitter.com/businessinsider/status/1088910829016223745 guillotine seriously
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HAIL eSATA-n posted:why would Facebook have engineers on staff? they mean programmers and by programmers they mean typists
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Jan 25, 2019 22:45
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like plenty of guilded-age-and-before rich people owned large estates but they also had guests around, often for extended periods of times, and parties and stuff all the time so all that space was used half these nerds have like no friends and aren't going to be throwing any parties -- its just dick waving and their suburban rotted brains seeking sprawl thats now unfettered by their access to money
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quote:The former sales employee recalled seeing engineers walk barefoot into the bathroom  that is beyond gross. we keep tidy bathrooms here at my work and i wouldn't think of doing that. i can only imagine the piss puddles those turbonerds are leaving
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Jan 25, 2019 22:59
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no lie if i had billions of dollars i would definitely have a big estate just that it would have like a 2000 square foot house in the middle with a barn full of machine tools next door and the other 95% would be a forest
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:
There was a guy in my office who would wash his feet in the sink every day. I believe the feet washing was a religious thing, while choosing the normal bathroom over the locker room was a nerd thing.
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I'd live in the woods way the gently caress away from america in a nice, small cabin and never work again
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