Deceit.blog: #subscriptions https://deceit.blog/tag/subscriptions Essays on what manipulation costs and why it lands. Tagged "subscriptions". en Thu, 24 Sep 2026 08:08:07 GMT 60 Fortnite's maker paid $520 million because a button was designed to be pressed by accident https://deceit.blog/essay/dark-patterns-consumer-manipulation https://deceit.blog/essay/dark-patterns-consumer-manipulation Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Explain. In December 2022, the FTC ordered Fortnite's maker, Epic Games, to pay $520 million. Not for a data breach. Not for a hack. For interface design. $275 million of that was the largest penalty the FTC has ever obtained for violating a federal privacy rule, over default settings that left children's vo…