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– Meta is earning billions from consumers being scammed. Even if the company gets fined – a process that takes years – the fines we have seen so far only amount to a fraction of these profits. In other words, Meta has no incentive to solve the problem. Meanwhile, the company doesn’t lift a finger to help its users, whether their profiles are misused in the scam ads, or they fall victim to the scams, Myrstad says. "
I really wish the rest of us could turn around and say, to their faces "That sounds like a you problem"
If a real store had that much fake stock it would be shut overnight.
You can find the 10% from scam thing all over the place. ala-
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-is-earning-fortu...
Another one of my favorite examples of this (an ad for Oslo tourism): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vhD59ac7nw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mTLO2F_ERY
It took the same scenes, but in keeping with the theme, made them slightly worse.
If they didn't acknowledge this somewhere, they should be called out on it.
"Mr. W" is a personification of the wind that can't help his existence flinging things, but finds a new purpose.
The "Enshittificator" is a person modifying consumer products more directly, and it ends badly, but he's happy about it.
Going in I was expecting scene-for-scene similarities, but it wasn't that close.
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4. Close the existing legal loopholes by adopting a strong Digital Fairness Act. Increase legal certainty and address loopholes in the legislation to better protect people for instance against deceptive and addictive design, and unfair personalisation.
Example: My wife saw an ad for decorative skulls that were made in such a way that you can safely put them in a campfire for Halloween. They had a video and everything, it looked pretty good. She orders a set and they get delayed, then she gets and email saying that US Customs would not let them in the country and they instead ship a $0.50 plastic Christmas tree ornament instead and immediately ghost her.
We reported the company to Facebook but it continued to run for weeks. I've also seen ads for $500 Aventon E-bike "closeout" that's clearly a scam, reported it, and had no action from Facebook. Another ad for an all metal "puzzle kit" of a V8 engine listed for $50 that I guarantee is fake. Every day I get ads that would not have passed the smell test from any reviewer yet continue to run.
It is also hopeful that publicly funded organisation asks for better governance rather than just bowing down.
Obviously it is in the Zeitgeist to do this now, could (should) have been written 20years ago, but who would have listened?
- the fact that r/ubisoft doesnt have as many weekly visitors as r/fuckubisoft should tell you something is seriously seriously wrong with them
Defending my opinion, though, I felt that both had tall somewhat socially awkward men dressed in oddly formal manners giving monologues to the camera. Scenewise, I thought slamming the drawer was a direct echo of slamming the shutters. And kicking the rock in the street echoed throwing the bottles in the street. And so forth.
Interesting that you don't think it's a knockoff. Given the theme, I found it ironic that it was itself an inferior copy. It ruined it for me.
Northern europeans cast northern europeans in commercials you say?
But I suspect you mean to say 90% of what ends up in your mailbox is junk. If that's the case, there's a fix for that, too:
The USPS is like this because of the persistent belief that it's not enough for government entities (think USPS, Amtrak, etc) to provide a good service for the citizens - they must also (try to) turn a profit.
If we as a society considered it acceptable for the USPS to spend money to ensure everyone in the US had mail access without selling out to corporations to turn a profit, they wouldn't need to have products like EDDM blasting spam to entire zip codes.