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by Bakary 2018 days ago
Look at it this way: it's probably better to keep to a mindset aiming at a society where people don't get nickel-and-dimed every second of every day. In-app purchases are just one of many traps; they are obvious but they compensate for that by sheer numbers. There is only so much willpower to check every incoming scam.

It's tempting to blame individuals and they certainly do deserve it like in this case but the general worldview spawned by that only increases the control of large multinationals on our lives.