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

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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.
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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.

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If you take a stab at it, and need a tester, let me know. I am very good at finding bugs, limitations and and unintended ways of breaking things.

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You and my wife too. I swear. I can give her some very polished piece of tech/code and she will find a way to break it in about 10 minutes or less. It sometimes baffles me because sometimes it seems so obvious but others its just like "Why the fuck would you even try to do that"?

This is why there is a rule/idea in programming to be explicate on everything. I call it "programming out the dumb". If a field should only have numbers, make sure it is impossible to put anything but numbers in it. Stuff like that.