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by TerrifiedMouse 912 days ago
Seems everyone forgot that Epic was fined over half a billion by the FTC for “Violating Children's Privacy and Engaging in Dark Pattern Deception”.

https://gizmodo.com/epic-fortnite-gaming-ftc-dark-patterns-1...

They are as unethical as they come.

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Let's not forget that Google isn't any better in that regard:

> Google Is Fined $170 Million for Violating Children’s Privacy on YouTube

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/04/technology/google-youtube...

> 15 privacy violation settlements amounting to roughly $1 billion between 2011 and 2023 with government regulators in various countries and private litigants

https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/23/google_childrens_priv...

Hardly agree, so all this corp speech about making the world better.. for their shareholders maybe, but lets ignore these CEOs acting as world saviors, how annoying