the temu app will be studied for generations.

[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.

[daveography@yeg.bike]

@cabel

This reminds me of those contests to come up with the worst UI/UX a twisted brain can come up with.

And then someone stole all of those ideas, made them 1000x more obnoxious, and said "perfect, deploy it."

[daveography@yeg.bike]

@cabel

They probably deployed on a Friday, too, because there are no limits to being sinister anymore.

[geos@toot.community]

@cabel
Wow!

[justincox@social.lol]

@cabel They sure have turned the shopping experience into a shitty, addictive mobile game, haven’t they?

[akamran@indieweb.social]

@Miredly @cabel I'm re-reading that right now, hard agree!