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Alllitup1 t1_jcfojo6 wrote
Reply to comment by calipygean in FTC Finalizes Order Requiring Fortnite maker Epic Games to Pay $245 Million for Tricking Users into Making Unwanted Charges by redbellx86
What do you think?
Edit:it was a fuckin question...
ddraeg t1_jcfntdt wrote
Reply to comment by Toxicz in A tech boss appointed by Italy's prime minister resigned after quoting a speech from fascist dictator Mussolini in an internal email by 777fer
How do you imagine your work environemnt turned out that way?
WhatTheZuck420 t1_jcfnmr3 wrote
Reply to comment by the_lovely_woods in 4,000 legal professionals at one of the world's largest accounting firms are getting a chatbot to speed up their work by GanGa
server in cloud tied to speaker boxes on each desk: "Get back to work" and "Faster, faster" every 5 minutes
WhatTheZuck420 t1_jcfngij wrote
Reply to comment by Deep_Stick8786 in 4,000 legal professionals at one of the world's largest accounting firms are getting a chatbot to speed up their work by GanGa
cialis will increase their staff size
Quentin-Code t1_jcfn2bw wrote
Reply to comment by BedditTedditReddit in FTC Finalizes Order Requiring Fortnite maker Epic Games to Pay $245 Million for Tricking Users into Making Unwanted Charges by redbellx86
Yes, remember, he was “”fighting for the people””. What a joke. Epic wants the money, that’s normal for a company but they aren’t honest with it.
Hamish_Ben t1_jcfm2sx wrote
Reply to A tech boss appointed by Italy's prime minister resigned after quoting a speech from fascist dictator Mussolini in an internal email by 777fer
Came here for the Dwight Schrute comments. Was not disappointed.
Hamish_Ben t1_jcflz79 wrote
Reply to comment by AaruIsBoss in A tech boss appointed by Italy's prime minister resigned after quoting a speech from fascist dictator Mussolini in an internal email by 777fer
Came here to say this. You beat me to it.
BedditTedditReddit t1_jcflwv3 wrote
Reply to FTC Finalizes Order Requiring Fortnite maker Epic Games to Pay $245 Million for Tricking Users into Making Unwanted Charges by redbellx86
Is this the same epic ceo who tried to take on apple? If so seems he's earned enough L's to be given the boot.
WhatTheZuck420 t1_jcfl0q1 wrote
Reply to comment by markofthebeast143 in FTC Finalizes Order Requiring Fortnite maker Epic Games to Pay $245 Million for Tricking Users into Making Unwanted Charges by redbellx86
every tech bro uses dark patterns. here:
update? now. ask me later.
where is never?
WhatTheZuck420 t1_jcfktl3 wrote
iceleel t1_jcfks0i wrote
Reply to comment by Adventurous_Ideal849 in FTC Finalizes Order Requiring Fortnite maker Epic Games to Pay $245 Million for Tricking Users into Making Unwanted Charges by redbellx86
Mobile games get free pass
iceleel t1_jcfkoip wrote
Reply to comment by cwesttheperson in FTC Finalizes Order Requiring Fortnite maker Epic Games to Pay $245 Million for Tricking Users into Making Unwanted Charges by redbellx86
They made it easy to buy content. Epic has done work to adjust store so each purchase requires player to have to hold button.
skilliard7 t1_jcfkige wrote
Reply to comment by cwesttheperson in FTC Finalizes Order Requiring Fortnite maker Epic Games to Pay $245 Million for Tricking Users into Making Unwanted Charges by redbellx86
Dark patterns are essentially a form of user interface design where you make the buttons you want the user to press more prominent than buttons you don't want them to press. For example the "buy now" button will be big and bright in the center, whereas the "no thanks" button would be in the corner and small in a less eye-catching color. The idea is users generally take the path of least resistance, so you can manipulate behavior by making it easier for the user to spend money.
In the case of Fortnite though, I'm not sure what in their interface is a dark pattern, I find it pretty clear that I'll be charged. But it's possible they may have changed it in response to the lawsuit before I started playing. Or maybe kids were just playing dumb to avoid getting in trouble for impulsively charging their parents cards. "I didn't know I was spending money!"
BDoubleSharp t1_jcfir7c wrote
Reply to FTC Finalizes Order Requiring Fortnite maker Epic Games to Pay $245 Million for Tricking Users into Making Unwanted Charges by redbellx86
How do I get my refund?
aroundtown t1_jcfi7ot wrote
Reply to comment by cwesttheperson in FTC Finalizes Order Requiring Fortnite maker Epic Games to Pay $245 Million for Tricking Users into Making Unwanted Charges by redbellx86
Probably too busy having their moms tell them to clean their rooms
calipygean t1_jcfhhnv wrote
Reply to FTC Finalizes Order Requiring Fortnite maker Epic Games to Pay $245 Million for Tricking Users into Making Unwanted Charges by redbellx86
Quick question do the people who were impacted get a portion of the settlement or does it just go in the US govs coffers?
Kitty-6 t1_jcfgxav wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in A tech boss appointed by Italy's prime minister resigned after quoting a speech from fascist dictator Mussolini in an internal email by 777fer
Boy-get some bitches for a change
outsidetheparty t1_jcffoyr wrote
Reply to comment by HotelKarma in Gov't to launch nationwide campaign vs fake news by Wagamaga
Facts are facts.
hobiwan t1_jcffo3i wrote
This comment section is a dumpster fire. Did Reddit start sorting by worst?
IAmTaka_VG t1_jcfexr6 wrote
Reply to comment by whothewildonesare in OpenAI releases GPT-4, a multimodal AI that it claims is state-of-the-art by donnygel
Keep in mind as well that Google was completely blindsided by this whole event. Sundar is a horrible CEO and this never should have happened. This might finally be the thing that kicks him, IMO he should already be fired but Google of all companies missing the boat on LLM is absolutely insane to me.
So Google can pretend it's just taking it's time but the reality is they've pulled thousands of developers from other projects to race Bard and Lamda to the finish line.
OpenAI and Microsoft have been working this apparently for over 5 years. Google can only go so fast to catch up and I have doubts their language models are as sophisticated as openai's.
cwesttheperson t1_jcfdu0u wrote
Reply to FTC Finalizes Order Requiring Fortnite maker Epic Games to Pay $245 Million for Tricking Users into Making Unwanted Charges by redbellx86
Can any fortnight player elaborate on these dark patterns?
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colonel_beeeees t1_jcfcnnj wrote
Reply to comment by Javaman2001 in A tech boss appointed by Italy's prime minister resigned after quoting a speech from fascist dictator Mussolini in an internal email by 777fer
I wish WWII vets could zombie out of their graves and slap all you ninnies so willing to give up your say in your govt
colonel_beeeees t1_jcfcj49 wrote
Reply to comment by freediverx01 in A tech boss appointed by Italy's prime minister resigned after quoting a speech from fascist dictator Mussolini in an internal email by 777fer
Lol I'm not represented by the one two faced party in the US, but ok bigbrain
ButtersTheSulcata t1_jcfoqct wrote
Reply to FTC Finalizes Order Requiring Fortnite maker Epic Games to Pay $245 Million for Tricking Users into Making Unwanted Charges by redbellx86
You mean the entirety of their business plan?