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Why is Google allowed to remove purchases from our Play Store accounts without telling us? (www.androidpolice.com)

submitted 10 months ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Rather than blaming inaction of the FTC, why not just stop using play store all together and encourage people to use Fdroid instead?

Because boycotts don't fucking work and are not a replacement for meaningful consumer protection law!

I do use F-Droid myself, thankyouverymuch, but I'm not so naive as to think it's an actual solution instead of a workaround. Even if it's technically possible to continuously defend yourself from the avalanche of corporate abuse, it's fucking exhausting. The masses not only aren't capable of it, but shouldn't have to be in the first place because abuse should be prevented, not worked around. That's what government is for!

This shit about boycotting abusive companies instead of actually regulating them is just as brain-dead as arguing that we shouldn't have police because we can just hire a personal security detail to follow us around instead.

Companies will never stop abusing ‘e-goods’ , it’s just not going to happen.

Not with that attitude. Companies could certainly be forced by the government to stop doing that, but apologists like you are letting government off the hook.

[–] laverabe@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Well I personally think the FTC should do more, but until money out of politics, it will never happen. And pending some mass upheaval; that is probably in all reality unlikely as long as people are fed, money will almost certainly never be out of politics.

So all the more necessity to encourage people to just abandon these profiteering companies.