This is a bit wild: fake video game advertisements: https://youtu.be/NhajAqI66nU
The Insidious World of Fake Mobile Game Ads

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@thisismissem This is incredible.

I kind of get what he means when he says that if they just made the game in the ad, they couldn’t trick people out of their money via in-app purchases.

But if the game were just $2 up-front, and even only 10% of the total downloaders paid that, that’s $20mil right there.

You’d make less overall, but why is that segment of the market virtually empty? Make a fun game, sell it, profit?

Am I being naive?

@jsit I think because capitalism makes people do horrible things to extract absolute maximum value from everything

@thisismissem Here’s that WSJ video he references:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=z-fxfuWhff0

Meet the Man Who Has Spent $70,000 Playing a Mobile Game

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