• Airfried@piefed.social
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    14 hours ago

    The only real difference between this type of advertising and running an ad on a website is that you can avoid the former extremely easily while actively having to block the latter if you take a single step out of federated territory. Besides, the game itself is already trademarked so yeah bit late for keeping that out.

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      12 hours ago

      And? The point is that it’s an ad, designed to manipulate people into thinking of ikea as being associated with fun and gaming, like it’s a fun person, and not a corporation. It’s a lie. Just because you aren’t forced to fully take part in something doesn’t make it somehow not malicious. You aren’t forced to buy a slave. Does that make it acceptable that someone sells them?

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        9 hours ago

        Calm down bud, it’s a mod. As much as I hate this myself, I’m quite happy it’s for people to install themselves if they want.

        Ssdly, it might be the start of a new plague that’ll get pushed and normalized over the next 5 years…