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FTC sues Uber, says company enrolled consumers in subscription service and charged them without their consent, made it difficult for users to cancel.

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Submitted ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Tea@programming.dev⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/04/ftc-takes-action-against-uber-deceptive-billing-cancellation-practices

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  • primemagnus@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    THAT’S what they came up with? The company that used to have a giant panic button that would wipe their entire building’s hard dives for FBI raids and the FTC drums up charges on, checks notes, a predatory subscription.

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  • Viri4thus@feddit.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So, it does look like the CEO of Proton was on to something.

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  • Audacious@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Really surprised the current government regime actually cares about this, because it’s about scamming the populace.

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  • adarza@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    muskrat still has that hallucination that everybody’s gonna be riding around in fully-autonomous self-driving teslas, right? so that’d mean this case will be ‘‘allowed’’ to proceed.

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  • FreeBooteR69@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Somebody forgot to bribe Trump.

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