Looking at Amazon, Aliexpress, even Walmart, there's a lot of products that aren't what they claim, such as lying about the capacity of batteries. Customers have to figure these things out for themselves and 'metagame' the system.

I don't think this should be allowed, but what are your thoughts?

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[–] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'd go a step further and say it should apply to digital products too.

Every mobile ad that goes to a product that the ad misrepresents.

Every mobile ad that won't close when you click "x".

Every website that loads bogus malware and scareware ads. "YOUR PHONE IS INFECTED!!!"

The mobile space is, if anything, worse than meatspace for fakery and bullshit.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    All of those things should be illegal, and many of them are. Ideally, someone would go to jail, but until that happens, might I suggest a solution to block most mobile ads?

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