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• SoupBrick@yiffit.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Basically, Goodrazi got touchy when asked about his organization’s efforts to neutralize government-spearheaded free tax filing programs. He hit back that Patel’s question — the editor said that Intuit is “legendary for lobbying against free direct federal e-filing” and then straightforwardly asked how much of their budget is allocated towards lobbying efforts — was “fundamentally” based in the “wrong premise” and was “inaccurate,” before declaring that Intuit doesn’t “lobby against free.”

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  • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They don’t lobby against free, they lobby against the government providing free. They’ll happily offer free service to rope people into their dark patterns.

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    • njordomir@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Free™ with the purchase of a second item of equal or greater value. Free™ iPhone when you sign up for a 2 year contract… Unlimited™ data. Free™ tax prep.

      Nothing is truly free and someone needs to buy these corporations a dictionary. Maybe a couple of government agencies could look at those dark patterns and offer some Free™ rides to a correctional facility?

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  • InverseParallax@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “No, we don’t lobby to keep our whole business model viable, why would we do that?”

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• masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Here’s the actual interview that was requested to be removed:

  theverge.com/…/intuit-ceo-sasan-goodarzi-turbotax…

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• FragrantOwl@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’ll just leave this here: www.freetaxusa.com

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• yonosoymarinara@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Begs? More like demands.

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  • Linktank@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    When you don’t have authority, demands are begging.

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• NevermindNoMind@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Do pr people not know about the Barbara Streisand effect?! I was going to skip this decoder episode, except the title of the episode was “Intuit asked us to delete part of this episode”. That’s the only reason I listened, and then only just to the portion they wanted deleted. If it wasn’t for the pr genius at Intuit I wouldn’t have cared. Ffs guys.

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• thesporkeffect@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I respect Nilay’s ability to be firm and ask questions he knows are going to upset his interviewees without actually becoming confrontational.

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