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That time Apple sent everyone a U2 album: 'I DONT WANT YOU.' (www.spacebar.news)
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[–] 136 points 8 months ago (10 children)

If they’d just made the album free for anyone to download it would have been fine, instead they forced it on everyone

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  • [–] 95 points 8 months ago (9 children)

    "if we just made this opt-in" has become the bleakest nonsense in IT.

    Be it LLMs or ads or "free" albums, tech companies just can't accept that "make me say yes" should always be the default.

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  • [–] 51 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    In this case it wasn’t even opt-out. Once the album was on your device it was impossible to get rid of it.

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  • [–] 14 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    I felt the same for Steam years ago. If you got a free game or something and it was shit you couldn't take if off your list. Granted they didn't force the game onto you but you still should be able to remove games from your account. I know you can now but there was a time you couldn't.

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  • [–] 27 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    it was quite a funny hobby to gift your friends shitty games, though

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  • [–] 21 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

    My friend said he has a small monthly budget for gifting a few of his friends porn games.

    Maybe not anymore, this was a while ago.

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