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This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.

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Game forces you to accept selling your info to vendors before you can use it (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by donuts to c/assholedesign

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If you hit "next", the consent window opens again and if you refuse any of them, you get put back at this screen so you're stuck in a loop.

This shitty practice is even endorsed by Google, as they are promoting this game to try out and earn points.

Edit: game is called Jewel Gold Empire: Match 3 and it's from some Korean company it seems: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.penta.empire.google

Obviously I uninstalled it immediately after

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I'm not as hooked on it as some. It feels kind of same-y over time, and the "it's poker" thing doesn't scratch any of the same itch as regular poker.

But it's sure as hell better than almost any "free" mobile game because it doesn't have a team of people special tailoring algorithms to decide when to cheat to make you win and when to cheat to screw you over in order to pull as much money as possible.