this post was submitted on 07 Dec 2024
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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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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So they don't sell in EU? Or disable the dialogue only there?

[โ€“] kraftpudding 8 points 1 week ago

That's what it looks like inside EU:

Only one option to agree to the user agreement and data usage. When you decline, the app just closes instantly