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The FTC is cracking down on companies that charge you a "personalized price"
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this post was submitted on 24 Aug 2026
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@chuckleslord @RedGreenBlue not a bad scam considering back in the 90s and 00s a ton of garbage patents were granted for "(obvious established real-world thing) but on a computer" leading to a bunch of blatantly fraudulent lawsuits that some Texas dumbasses said were valid *coughbecausetheywerepaidoffcough* for some reason
Folks making and enforcing laws are amazingly vulnerable to fundamentally meaningless semantics when there's money to be made