[pengaru]

Last I checked it's trivial to not spend your time and/or money on such stupid apps.

checks his pixel 8a yep, there's no games installed here

The amount of people in both this and the reddit thread treating the poster like some minor without responsibility for their actions is pathetic.

This is a grown ass adult pissing their time and money away on mobile games. Then when they realize how totally reckless they've been, seek a f*cking refund? And people are calling for laws protecting this grown ass adult from themselves? We're clearly not talking about some eight year old people.

Quit expecting some nanny state to do your adulting for you and grow the fuck up.

I'll defer to the late George Carlin:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pz8jO2Sht0&t=460s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leWjdWUR_KI&t=85s

[HankStallone]

It doesn't have to be either-or. We can expect grown adults to control their behavior, while at the same time deciding as a society that there are some industries/products that are harmful enough, and without any beneficial effects to offset that harm, that we just don't want them around tempting people who might have a weakness for them.

We already do that with lots of things, from hard drugs to prostitution to owning your own nuclear weapons. Some of us may disagree with some of those laws, but unless you're the most extreme libertarian who ever doffed a fedora, there's probably something that you'd say shouldn't be accessible to every random adult capable of poking at a phone.