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  • raynethackery@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    If you have any stored payment methods on Google Pay, I’d remove them. Whose to say they won’t try to sneak some clause in their TOS that says if you use an ad blocker, they will charge you for Premium. removes tinfoil hat

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        1 year ago

        Exactly, they might get fined $300,000 for making $2,000,000,000 in profit.

        They wouldn’t dare!

        • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
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          1 year ago

          Ya, cause people aren’t going to issue charge backs. They’ll just shrug and say “you caught me!”

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        1 year ago

        Also completely believable. This is why I never enter payment info on Google software or hardware. Illegal doesn’t mean shit to companies this big, ftc/fcc are toothless and we are cattle.

        A 6 figure fine for a 12 figure profit sounds accurate to how this would play out.

        • cricket97@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          not believable at all. this would get them banned from their payment processors instantly.

    • gian @lemmy.grys.it
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      Whose to say they won’t try to sneak some clause in their TOS that says if you use an ad blocker, they will charge you for Premium

      Meanwhile in EU: “Doom music intensifies…”