FTC to give $126M back to Fortnite players who were charged for unwanted items

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benoau · 12m ago

FTC needs to do a clean sweep of all the major platforms, it's been ~14 years since anyone did and last time they found Facebook calling it "friendly fraud" to get children spending thousands and refuse their parents refunds, they found Apple sitting on 10,000s of unanswered refund requests from parents, they found issues with Microsoft, Amazon and Google, and since then the profits from predatory games have absolutely soared and the science behind them only gotten more accurate and conniving.

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FTC to give $126M back to Fortnite players who were charged for unwanted items

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