• reddig33@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    I’d say “sounds like a lawsuit”. After all, you can’t advertise something as no ads, and then show ads.

    But then I remember who is in charge for the next four years and realize they’ll just get away with it.

    • nogooduser@lemmy.world
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      6 hours ago

      Another one that shouldn’t be allowed but is are the unlimited* plans where the * indicates that it’s not really unlimited.

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        4 minutes ago

        Anything where the clear statement with such a marker indicating it is not true should be illegal. ‘Up to’ claims should also be illegal unless they are true for 99%+ of users/customers.

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      12 hours ago

      They get away with it with that damned asterisk. So long as you put an asterisk, you could say this comment does not contain English words*

      * comment may contain some or all English and / or any other language words

    • SaltySalamander@fedia.io
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      15 hours ago

      They’ve literally been doing this for over a decade, at least. There were always some shows on Hulu that the “ad-free” plan didn’t include as ad-free, though they usually only showed ads at the beginning and the end of the show.