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Fuck companies that do this. Dark Patterns are bad for customers.

Archive: https://archive.today/CTV8i

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>The Federal Trade Commission today sued the operators of LA Fitness and other gyms over allegations they make it exceedingly difficult for consumers to cancel their gym memberships and related services that continued indefinitely unless cancelled. The agency is seeking a court order prohibiting the allegedly unfair conduct and money back for consumers harmed by the difficulty in cancelling memberships.

Fuck companies that do this. Dark Patterns are bad for customers. Archive: https://archive.today/CTV8i From the post: >>The Federal Trade Commission today sued the operators of LA Fitness and other gyms over allegations they make it exceedingly difficult for consumers to cancel their gym memberships and related services that continued indefinitely unless cancelled. The agency is seeking a court order prohibiting the allegedly unfair conduct and money back for consumers harmed by the difficulty in cancelling memberships.
[–] • 2 pts

I don't agree with everything Louis Rossman says, but one of the things I agree with him on is "If I can sign up for something with the click of a button, I should be able to cancel that thing also with a click of a button".

[–] • 1 pt

I agree entirely. Multiple states have tried to force "click to cancel". They keep getting sued and the "law" is suspended temporarily.

Maybe there is a site like "no click to cancel" or maybe Louis has a wiki page on companies that do this. If not, it should be created. I want to look up if a company is going to let me sign up but I have to do some stupid bullshit to cancel. That way, I just won't sign up in the first place.

[–] • 1 pt

You know what would be sweet? I don't know how feasible it would be for to do this, but a web browser plug-in or some other program that when you visit sites, you get to see comments and things left there from Poal users, like have a YouTube comment section for the entire web, that is only visible to us.

[–] • 1 pt

I was considering a project a long time ago like this. Some people actually built something like it and it was banned basically everywhere. Maybe there are modern versions around now.

The idea was for it to be decentralized and allow you to rate/review/etc content on any website/video/etc with it also archiving (where possible) so it could not be changed to "fit the views". It would also let you directly comment/chat with other people on those sites (not really real-time but more like a BBS).

The initial plan was a lot more complex than that but it is the general idea. Maybe ill go spend a few weeks "vibe coding" and see if I can just make it myself? It will need a lot of review though, those "AI's" tend to be trained on some pretty shitty pajeet code and its full of bugs and exploits.

[–] • 1 pt

Gab did it, it’s called Dissenter.

They started it as a plug-in, and moved to an entire web browser.

It failed because of privacy concerns since Gab has partnered with a jew for their Gabpay service (mandatory if you want to browse through a VPN).

[–] • 1 pt

I was a member at one like 10-13 years ago and I had read all the horror stories of cancelling. I went in and told them I only joined because my whore girlfriend wanted to and I never used it since we had broken up.

They cancelled it on the spot no muss no fuss. I was kinda shocked.