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Rare consumer rights
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Whatever else you think of his regulators have been on an amazing pro-consumer spree for at least the last couple of years.
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Give more examples
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They, can't
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I mentioned the click-to-cancel rule in another comment.
They also launched a "Time is Money" initiative to stop companies keeping you waiting on hold forever, and they're banning companies charging bullshit "junk fees" instead of just raising the price.
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Ty bb
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Yeah, honestly it's been pretty based. I wish he'd cuck advertisers with stronger privacy laws though. It seems like everyone in the country knows about your late night incognito search for entry level butt plugs before the thing even arrives with next day shipping.
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I've never had an issue with this. Try VPNmaxxing harder.
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Man VPNs are so gimped now. It feels like every website just blocklists every IP range associated with mullvad at least.
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Yeah mullvad is blocked a lot
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Is there one that mostly works?
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I just change my location to different third world countries until it does.
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They don't have much time until Drumph turns Amerikkka into a dystopian corporatocracy
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You joke, but the FTC click-to-cancel rule was approved in a 3-2 party line vote with the Republicans against it.
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Whenever that line gets trotted out you just know it's a piece-of-shit business practice. It's the same reasoning that insurance companies/PBMs use when they're asked why the prices and rebates for drugs aren't transparent .
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Trump's going to do that?
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No, but I wish he would
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Yeah between Biden and the EU we've had some pretty good wins for consumer rights in the tech space recently. The lawsuit against the lizard people over at Adobe was well-deserved.
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this wasnt biden or even the executive branch or agency regulators, this is the courts/judicial branch that did this.
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Correct. IIRC, this sort of "class action, precedent-establishing arbitration" came as a response from companies getting fricked in the butt due to huge costs from having to pay for large amounts of arbitration cases. The courts are saying that you can't have your cake and eat it too, and rightly so in my view.
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Who brought the suit? The customers?
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yeah, butt not like all of them.
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