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  • Boycotts don’t stop EA money. They have superbowl ad money. The market of consumers that really just don’t give a shit about this is way too large, and they will go with what’s advertised to them constantly.

    I’m not saying don’t boycott them. I have for decades. I’ve preached that for decades. It doesn’t work, the AAA dev is going to still have the main stage during every gaming convention and there will still be some weird ass overnight line to be the first one to buy corporate slop game 2026.




  • Winning@lemmy.worldtoFuck Cars@lemmy.worldMassive loop hole
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    14 days ago

    My previous employer upgraded everyone’s work phones early this year. Some sort of MOTO phone. Im dispatched, this phone is given to me for navigation. This thing was so overloaded with ads that I couldn’t use Google maps for a single trip without giant full screen ads popping up for some MOTO shit. It’s the actual phone manufacturer shoving ads up while a navigation app has the screen forced on.

    I’m no phone dev, but there’s no way the phone manufacturer who modifies the boot image and packs 20 uninstallable apps DOESNT know when the phone is being used for navigation. I would say the opposite, I bet android makes it very clear why the screen is stuck on. And the phone manufacturer says hey let’s advertise right now, it’s the perfect time.

    How many deaths can be directly tied to this advertising campaign. Like so wildly directly, I’m not sure how advertising can more directly and immediately cause death like this. There’s a MOTO dev somewhere that should be looking at hard time