Zagorath

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by Zagorath 10mo ago
Umm, no? Absolutely not. If you lie to someone in conducting a business transaction, that is textbook fraud. You can tell them "sorry, I can't share that information about our business process to protect trade secrets". You a
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by Zagorath 10mo ago
There are many times a service like that might not be fraud. For example, if you never explicitly said it was an AI, and if every detail of the service remains the same, from the customer's perspective. The privacy implications alon
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by Zagorath 1y ago
Well, this morning I noticed my account had been set to a premium one and the ads were gone. Thanks for getting the right thing done here.
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by Zagorath 1y ago
Hey, I genuinely appreciate that. I thought that this subscription was added under Automattic's watch, but as you say it has been a confusing process so I could very well be wrong. I've already reached out to your customer service
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by Zagorath 1y ago
> Anyone who has ever paid for Pocket Casts, even before Automattic acquired it, should not see ads. If you did, that's a bug and we'll fix it. I appreciate that. I hope you do. But I do not for one second believe the truth of
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by Zagorath 1y ago
The link I shared makes it quite clear that "puffery" that nobody is reasonably expected to take literally does not count. Being told that the app you paid for would be a one-time payment, and then having the service deliberately
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by Zagorath 1y ago
They didn't warn us ahead of time that there would be ads. The patch notes didn't even mention the ads! Shifty Jelly used to have legendary patch notes, but it's been a long time since that was true. And since app stores don&
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by Zagorath 1y ago
I don't think a trust should be necessary. A plan for longterm sustainability should be. The streaming video service Nebula, for example, has a lifetime membership. The company was very straightforward with potential customers: thi
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by Zagorath 1y ago
They are (or were, at the time they had that slogan) an Australian company. I am an Australian citizen. Under Australian Consumer Law, an advertisement is absolutely legally binding. https://www.accc.gov.au/consumers/
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by Zagorath 2y ago
The thing is, it's not petty crime in the situation they described. If they're stealing from (or knowingly buying the stolen property of) a large number of people, that's now a significant illegal operation. Yes it might no
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by Zagorath 3y ago
Ah right my mistake, I was conflating two things. The trend in road bike tyres lately is to be wider, because wider tyres have lower rolling resistance at the same pressure. It allows you, in turn, to lower the pressure and get the comfort
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by Zagorath 3y ago
> Your bike tires need to be at around 3 bar. Yo, what? I'm pretty sure I do my bike tyres up to about 6.5 bar. And that's down from the 7 I used to use until I heard that lower pressure creates lower rolling resistance and is