the temu app will be studied for generations.

[_disfavoredoverload@mastodon.social]

@cabel I heard the creator of Too Many Cooks had a big new project, but I thought it was going to be a movie…

[blabberlicious@toot.community]

@cabel
I keep refreshing your post to see if you win.

[siph@meemu.org]

@cabel this makes me want to die lmao

[peacegiverman@mastodon.social]

@cabel Of all the things, this reminds me of SharperFX animations:

https://web.archive.org/web/20221205114235/http://www.sharperfx.com/nb1/

https://web.archive.org/web/20130828181952/http://www.sharperfx.com/kkmime/index13.htm

[nigma@mastodon.social]

@cabel I almost had a stroke watching this

[violet@chitter.xyz]

@cabel trainpal (a UK rail booking app) does exactly the same bullshit

[miah@hachyderm.io]

@cabel I think slot machines in Vegas aren't as predatory

[mo@mastodon.ml]

@cabel for someone abroad, what is temu..? Because what I see is poor made mobile game (contains ads) (in-app purchases)

[miredly@raru.re]

@cabel This is how you make a Cayce Pollard

[swiftcoder@mastodon.social]

@cabel Finding the video games embedded in the AliExpress app is still a surreal moment

[nawer_rapter@mastodon.social]

@cabel this is just a gambling machine at the bottom of a spanish bar how the fuck is this even legal.

[eblu@wetdry.world]

@cabel the best part about this video is how the contrast is intentionally turned down like an anime still covering for that one pokemon episode that hospitalized people

[alilly@solarpunk.moe]

@cabel holy hell how much time pressure can they put you under

[kallisti@infosec.exchange]

@cabel
In the future, this will be what the Internet looks like

[gaditb@icosahedron.website]

@cabel """
JUICE: this IS capitalism you donk

JUICE: this is what its supposed to be, this is how it ends. if it isn't there its only because it isnt there yet. ...

JUICE: ... it's a beast of the wild, as wild as any grizzly bear with fawn's blood in its mouth. i think you see deeds and contracts and bureaucratic bloat and see that something went wrong. something was ALWAYS wrong y'all.

JUICE: i love it. i love to watch it. in a zoo, where it can't hurt me.
"""

[samantazfox@infosec.exchange]

@Violet @cabel I was wondering why some apps were nearing 1GB when they shouldn't... Now I understand why. That's crazy!

[drayson@dragonchat.org]

@cabel What is this candy crush ahh bs

[kestral@masto.hackers.town]

@cabel crikey

[keydelk@fosstodon.org]

@cabel I tried the Temu app once, years ago, before I knew what it was. I opened the app, saw ads like this (maybe slightly less extreme a few years ago), and immediately thought "this must be a scam" and un-installed it.

[devolute@mastodon.social]

@cabel If you think about this for too long it quickly becomes incredibly tragic.
1. It obviously targets people with gambling-abuse personalities.
2. We have a landfill crisis in the UK.