I guess it's just normalized.
That's a lot of money they have stolen there.
I didn't read the text on the first page and thought it was an electric chair.
Why would it be illegal, or unethical? I don't really see any reason.
UserBenchmark is a joke. They aren't just biased in a normal way, but rather they have an obsession on AMD and throw lots of weird insults like this.
EU is way too large of a market to "lock out." Didn't happen with Apple, for example.
For subscription hell, we're deeper into it than is healthy, but I don't expect it to take over because of this. Steam, which is the biggest, most profitable platform out there doesn't even offer a subscription and shouldn't be hurt by this. For competitors, trying to suddenly force everyone into a subscription would lose a lot of business.
Edit: Anyway, doing nothing about it is a guaranteed bad outcome.
It's not supposed to be a finished law at this point. The main take from the initiative is that digital games have a massive issue with anti-consumer practices, and that consumers demand something to be done about it.
How would this exactly backfire in your view?
Most of HMD's efforts, like that "repairable" phone are a joke. I'm not particularly impressed with this either, but it seems that the pogo pins provide standard USB, which could enable some fun hacks.
This looks more like classic spambots than AI.
Might be a bit too late for that.