Comment on Why is Google allowed to remove purchases from our Play Store accounts without telling us?

• Auli@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I can buy a vacation doesn’t mean I own the place I’m going.

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• lemonnade@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s literally just a convention, a design choice. It doesn’t really mean anything.

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  • starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    buy (third-person singular simple present buys, present participle buying, simple past bought, past participle bought or (archaic, rare, dialectal) boughten)

    (transitive, ditransitive) To obtain (something) in exchange for money or goods.

    “I’m going to buy my father something nice for his birthday.”

    When I search the Play Store for Geometry Dash, and click the lil button that says “$1.99,” I get this page. It sure as shit looks like what I’m about to buy is Geometry Dash, the video game. When I click “Buy,” I’m not at all expecting to “buy” a temporary, permanently revokable license to play the game for now. I’m expecting to own the 1s and 0s that are downloaded to my device. Hiding legalese in the T&C that nobody clicks saying “actually buy means lease” is legal, and it should not be legal, because it’s misleading as hell. They should not be allowed to redefine words in T&C.

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