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   Matthew Lyon (mattly@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 21-Dec-2023 06:38:11 JST Matthew Lyon

   I mean, yes, it’s bad that many sites are doing shady things in attempting to neuter class-action suites via TOS / EULA updates

   on the flip side

   What is a “class action suits are good for consumers, actually” argument? I’ve been “in the settlement class” for over a dozen of these things in the past year and it seems the only things they accomplish are buying yachts for attorneys.

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     tech? no! man, see... (technomancy@icosahedron.website)'s status on Thursday, 21-Dec-2023 06:41:22 JST tech? no! man, see...

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     @mattly while I agree they don't accomplish much for you and I, the alternative of letting companies get away without any punishment at all seems much worse

     granted, the cost of the settlement is very rarely proportionate to the profit they made by breaking the law in the first place, but hey it's better than $0

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     Roger Sherman :vim: (rogersherman@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 21-Dec-2023 06:42:47 JST Roger Sherman :vim:

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     @mattly I was in a class action suit against devry university. They were found to have used deceptive practices, fraudulent in how they portrayed how much you'd owe in student loans.

     I got the equivalent of the interest on one student loan payment.

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     tech? no! man, see... (technomancy@icosahedron.website)'s status on Thursday, 21-Dec-2023 06:54:02 JST tech? no! man, see...

     @mattly huh, I've never seen anything like that before; most of the ones I get notified about are due to gross negligence in security practices or blatant lies