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Game forces you to accept selling your info to vendors before you can use it (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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If you hit "next", the consent window opens again and if you refuse any of them, you get put back at this screen so you're stuck in a loop.

This shitty practice is even endorsed by Google, as they are promoting this game to try out and earn points.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

This goes against the GDPR.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

There is no GDPR outside of EU.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So they don't sell in EU? Or disable the dialogue only there?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

That's what it looks like inside EU:

Only one option to agree to the user agreement and data usage. When you decline, the app just closes instantly

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Which speak to the bigger problem of why don't we have this globally? Why hasn't the US had the legislative balls to implement and enforce an equivalent law? For a culture that is so paranoid about personal information, it's just such a massive mental gap.