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We're putting forward the Digital Fairness Act, to tackle online shopping tricks, hidden costs and subscription traps.
To make everyday digital life fairer for all consumers.
Here's what this means
🛍️ No more manipulative tricks pushing you to buy
💳 Clearer prices, without nasty surprises
📱 More control over endless scrolling and autoplay
🚫 Easier ways to cancel subscriptions and free trials
🎮 Better protection for children against unfair spending tricks in games
@EUCommission Maybe incremental fines for tech companies that break these rules may be a good idea to actually enforce these rules. I like that there's someone trying to do something about these issue (not talking about chat control), but what sense does it make fining a company for 3% of global profit (mezza stecca per loro) when they keep violating the rules over and over. 3% the first time, then 6,9,12 and so on.
You should do that for plane tickets too.
We're putting forward the Digital Fairness Act, to tackle online shopping tricks, hidden costs and subscription traps.
I sincerely hope blocking the traps Amazon sets to trick consumers in to Prime Subscriptions.
It's been a long time since you have promoted something genuinely positive like this.
I hope the shortcomings pointed out by @edri will be amended, and the whole thing isn't sunk by lobbyism, in the legislative process.
@EUCommission First let's solve ethical anonymous age verification.
The only solution is **local** parental-like control which does not require ID nor Remote Attestation. This is the only ethical solution, which you refuse to consider.
Then, sure, you can implement whatever law you want to protect children.
Safety and Privacy should be non negotiable, and you are hurting both with your unsecure non-private age verification system.
@EUCommission So what’s the status on this abomination?
https://noyb.eu/en/ai-eu-member-states-approve-digital-expropriation-europeans-ai-companies
"Easier ways to cancel subscriptions and free trials"
This is nice.
It might be also a good idea to require those offering free trials to not allow setting auto-renew by default.
@The_Universality That's a fair point! Thanks for the suggestion!
@EUCommission Thanks for listening on Mastodon! This would be an awesome addition.
@EUCommission i must say i am positively surprised lets hope the no gambling for children part gets pushed through without being gutted by politicians who are being puppeteered by lobbying money
@EUCommission There‘s „banning the 500+ trackers which create dynamic pricing” missing. (in general banning dynamic pricing should be banned)
@EUCommission Hi there. Where do I get an application to become European? Sigh.
@EUCommission 🤣 🤡