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0 pointsnetsharc5mo ago0 comments

I read somewhere that if all of online scamming was calculated as a country's production, it'd have the 3rd largest GDP in the world. Edit, link: https://sponsored.bloomberg.com/quicksight/check-point/the-w...

But then again, aren't there obviously scams, and scams that are deemed legal? Like promising a car today that will be updated "next year" to be able to drive itself? Or all the enshittified industry's dark patterns, preying on you to click the wrong button?

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IAmBroom5mo ago

You're making a "perfection" kind of fallacy. If we extend the term "scammer" to mean "anyone who didn't 100.0% deliver on every statement they ever made", congrats: EVERYONE is a scammer.

quentindanjou5mo ago

Actually they are right, while "a car today that will be updated 'next year' to be able to drive itself" is not a scam it is actually "deception" which can lead to legal consequences. And if the company knew in advance that they would not be able to deliver such updates while advertising that, we would indeed be in the scam territory.

Let's not downplay dark pattern strategies of some companies that actually do not benefit anyone in society.

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IAmBroom5mo ago

You're making a "perfection" kind of fallacy. If we extend the term "scammer" to mean "anyone who didn't 100.0% deliver on every statement they ever made", congrats: EVERYONE is a scammer.

quentindanjou5mo ago

Let's not downplay dark pattern strategies of some companies that actually do not benefit anyone in society.

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