Pepsigate 2

[ex_uniquewo]

As noticed by theclamsman, the Pepsi v-gifts, styles and mood theme cannot be used any longer.

The options foxfirefey was mentioning in the previous post have already been coded: all users will be able to disable the receipt of all v-gifts. All users but Plus ones will be able to disable the receipt of sponsored v-gifts and Paid and Permanent users will be opted out

Comments

Re: Jeebus

[elfwreck]

I suspect they consulted a lawyer, who looked at the TOS, looked at the v-gifts, and said, "you know... all that babble about sponsored content is different from ads isn't actually going to fly in court, right? Especially since you said they were being offered in the hopes that they'd buy the product?"

Or else someone told them how easy it would be to write a script to block the Pepsi content, and that their "it's not ads" stance would make it okay to use the script. (They still haven't made a statement about these being ads--and I suspect they won't, because that would open them to a massive class-action lawsuit--so it'd still be okay to scriptblock them. Hypothetically.)

Now they're getting some complaints from people who liked them, and were using them to pass cute notes among their friends. And I've got some sympathy for those people, who are probably blithely thinking that they're going to get an explanation for "why did you remove this fun new feature? Okay, if some people didn't want it, they shouldn't have to deal with it--but you told US we'd get 10/week for the next month, and we had plans for them! Where's the nifty toys you promised us?"

I'd like to send a smack to the brain in a jar, please

[speck]

So they took it out. Said nothing. Took away the "free" - so hard to make ALL GIFTS FREE under the same plan 10 per week for a month?

sorry just mad

[speck]

Feels like the've spent too much time drinking the kool-aid* to make any sane rational service-friendly moves that didn't happen to act as a DDOS on themselves.

*or Diet Pepsi MAX!

Re: Jeebus

[foxfirefey]

Doubtful--I bet they were being used as abuse all over, they were getting lots of complaints to Abuse, and so they pulled them temporarily to get the stuff implemented ASAP so they could put them back with as little disruption as possible for the sake of the advertiser.