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Re:FTC bans hidden junk fees in hotel, event ticket prices by account42 on Friday December 20, 2024 @05:03AM (#42469685)
Ah yes, let's allow businesses to employ dark patterns to profit at the expens of unwilling customers because otherwise they might need to put in a little effort to deal with hypothetical edge cases.
Re:FTC bans hidden junk fees in hotel, event ticket prices by AnthonyMouse on Sunday December 22, 2024 @10:10AM (#42486803)
The businesses using dark patterns are disproportionately large corporations. The ones that have trouble implementing a regulation which is airtight against corporate lawyer tricks are the small ones. That implies the obvious solution that you make the rules specific to the large corporations, e.g. ones with more than 1000 employees. But the rules typically aren't written to do that, and as long as that continues you're going to get resistance from the very large number of small businesses you're screwing.