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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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

This goes against the GDPR.

[–] Fedditor385 15 points 1 week ago (5 children)

There is no GDPR outside of EU.

[–] Shard 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Which speak to the bigger problem of why don't we have this globally? Why hasn't the US had the legislative balls to implement and enforce an equivalent law? For a culture that is so paranoid about personal information, it's just such a massive mental gap.

[–] StupidBrotherInLaw 1 points 1 week ago

Because the US is effectively an oligarchy run by billionaires. Why would they do something that would provide them with less money and power?

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