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[–] DomeGuy@lemmy.world 95 points 5 days ago (3 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.

[–] red_tomato@lemmy.world 50 points 5 days ago (1 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.

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 14 points 5 days ago (1 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.

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 5 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 20 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 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.

[–] dev_null@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You do have to accept the gift though. You can't just force a game onto someone.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 0 points 4 days ago
[–] Anivia@feddit.org 4 points 4 days ago
[–] Archer@lemmy.world 17 points 5 days ago

But then line wouldn’t go up so obviously that’s wrong