• alakey@piefed.social
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    17 hours ago

    See you in a year or 2.

    Play as old as times:

    1. Company announces garbage change
    2. People freak out
    3. Company says ok we will only do half of the garbage
    4. People calm down and forget
    5. Company later does the rest of the garbage
    6. Nobody cares because half of it is already there
    • Tim_Bisley@piefed.social
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      17 hours ago

      Foot in the door technique is a timeless way to get what you want. People seem oblivious to it.

    • tempest@lemmy.ca
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      14 hours ago

      I mean it makes total sense the minute you think about it at all.

      • some middle managers year end goals include this unpalatable feature
      • they release it
      • public freaks out
      • pr walks it back a bit
      • that managers back at work the week after trying to get that feature in because they need to justify the work they just did on it for better compensation

      It’s the same with laws.

      It’s very hard to get the electorate united to oppose something but if they manage to unite and oppose a bill the lobbyists are back at work on Monday pushing it by a different name.

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      12 hours ago

      Technology makes everything cheaper, including changing minds.

      At some points it was unfeasible to abuse consumers because they’d object. Now, if it’s on a large enough scale and valuable enough, you can just pay to convince the majority of them that it’s fine.

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      13 hours ago

      That reminds me. We are quickly approaching the date discord postponed age verification to.

    • tidderuuf@lemmy.world
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      15 hours ago

      Are you implying that CA regulators do exactly what disgusting corporations do?!? I am shocked sir!